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This is a list of individuals who were former or serving Members of Parliament for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by decade of death. List List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 1990s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2000s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2010s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2020s See also
Died Labour: Audrey Wise: Coventry South West & Preston: Feb 1974 & 1987: 1979 & 2000: Defeated & died Labour: Margaret Beckett [bp] Lincoln & Derby South: Oct 1974 & 1983: 1979 & 2024: Defeated & retired SNP: Margaret Ewing [bq] East Dunbartonshire & Moray: Oct 1974 & 1987: 1979 & 2001: Defeated & retired Labour: Millie Miller: Ilford North ...
Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) List of female members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Mother of Parliament; Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom § Women; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Women gained the right to vote with the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918 after World War I. This gave the vote to women over the age of 30. However, the Speakers Conference which was charged with looking into giving women the vote did not have as its terms of reference, consideration to women standing as candidates for ...
The shortest service for women MPs has been 92 days in the case of both Ruth Dalton, who was MP for Bishop Auckland from a by-election on 7 February 1929 to dissolution of Parliament on 10 May 1929 prior to that year's general election, and Margo MacDonald, who was MP for Glasgow Govan from a by-election on 8 November 1973 until the dissolution ...
Rathbone was the daughter of the social reformer William Rathbone VI and his second wife, Emily Acheson Lyle. She spent her early years in Liverpool. Her family encouraged her to concentrate on social issues; the family motto was "What ought to be done, can be done."
This is a list of Sinn Féin MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing Sinn Féin. Members of the European Parliament, Dáil Éireann or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed. Sinn Féin MPs practice abstentionism regarding the House of Commons and thus do not take their seats.
This is a list of sitting members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who died by assassination or other culpable homicide. Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a merchant who blamed the government for his debt. From 1882 to 1990, six MPs ...