List of British MPs who only sat in the February-November 1910 Parliament
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Twenty-two Members who sat throughout the 1910 Parliament were not members of any preceding or following Parliament, Their tenure as MPs therefore lasted 286 days, making them among the shortest-serving MPs in history.
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Members defeated at the December 1910 election
- William Augustus AdamWilliam Augustus AdamWilliam Augustus Adam was a British and army officer and Conservative Party politician.He was born with the surname "Adams" but later changed his name....
, Woolwich - Gerald Archibald ArbuthnotGerald Archibald ArbuthnotGerald Archibald Arbuthnot was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.The son of Major General William Arbuthnot and Selina Moncreiffe, he was Vice-Chancellor of the Primrose League...
, Burnley - Walter Annis Attenborough, Bedford
- Robert Brassey, Banbury
- Gerald Fitzgibbon BrunskillGerald Fitzgibbon BrunskillGerald Fitzgibbon Brunskill was an Irish Unionist Party politician who served briefly as Member of Parliament for Mid Tyrone. He was elected in the general election of January 1910, but narrowly lost the seat in the December 1910 general election to Richard McGhee.- External links :...
, Mid-Tyrone - Thomas Charles Pleydell CalleyThomas Charles Pleydell CalleyMajor-General Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley, CB, MVO, was a British Liberal Unionist politician.He was elected at the January 1910 general election as Member of Parliament for Cricklade, winning the seat from the sitting Liberal MP John Massie...
, Cricklade - Sir Henry Arthur Colefax, Manchester South West
- Bryan Ricco Cooper, Dublin South
- Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, Radnorshire
- Sir William Henry DunnWilliam Henry DunnSir William Henry Dunn, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician.Dunn was born in Clitheroe, in Lancashire. He was married to Ellen Pawle in 1885 and they had one son and a daughter....
, Southwark West - John Kenneth FosterJohn Kenneth FosterJohn Kenneth Foster was a British Conservative Party politician.He was MP for Coventry in 1910. Like a few Conservatives, he took the seat in the first general election of January that year, but lost it in December 1910....
, Coventry - Frederick HindleFrederick Hindle (1848-1925)Frederick George Hindle was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, who seved as Member of Parliament for the Darwen constituency in Lancashire from January 1910 to December 1910....
, Darwen - John Arthur JacksonJohn Arthur JacksonJohn Arthur Jackson was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the general election in January 1910 as Member of Parliament for Whitehaven, but lost his seat at the December 1910 election....
, Whitehaven - Max MusprattMax MusprattSir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and a politician in the city of Liverpool, England.He was born at Seaforth Hall, Liverpool, the son of Edmund Knowles Muspratt and his wife Frances...
, Liverpool Exchange - Douglas ProbyDouglas ProbyDouglas James Proby DL, JP , known as Douglas Hamilton until 1904, was a British politician and soldier.-Background:...
, Saffron Walden - George Henry VerrallGeorge Henry VerrallGeorge Henry Verrall was a British horse racing official, entomologist, botanist and Conservative politician.-Horse racing:...
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Members who retired at the Dissolution
- Sir Thomas BarclayThomas Barclay (MP)Sir Thomas Barclay LL.D., Ph.D. was a distinguished authority on International Law, a writer on economic subjects and a British Liberal politician....
, Blackburn - Alfred du CrosAlfred du CrosAlfred du Cros was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1910.du Cros was elected to the Commons in the January 1910 general election, succeeding the Liberal MP Stopford Brooke in the Bow and Bromley constituency...
, Bow and Bromley - Cecil Alfred Grenfell, Bodmin
- James Knott, Sunderland
- Trebitsch LincolnTrebitsch LincolnIgnatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln a Hungarian Jewish adventurer who spent parts of his life as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, and Buddhist abbot in China....
, Darlington
1974 elections
On the only other occasion in the 20th century when two UK general elections took place in the same year, 1974, there was only one MP who served only in this parliament: Harry WestHarry West
Henry William West was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979.West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen...
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See also
- Eugene O'SullivanEugene O'Sullivan (Irish politician)Eugene O'Sullivan was an Irish nationalist politician and farmer, who was elected Member of Parliament for East Kerry in January 1910, but was unseated on petition shortly afterwards....
- Frederick William GibbinsFrederick William GibbinsFrederick William Gibbins was a Welsh businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:Gibbins was born in Neath the eldest son of F J Gibbins, a local Justice of the Peace. He was educated privately but also attended the Quaker School in Scarborough...
- List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service