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27 unusual facts about Member of Parliament


Anthony Oliphant

His eldest brother, Laurence Oliphant, 8th of Condie was Member of the House of Commons for Perth, whose son was General Sir Laurence Oliphant KCB KCVO, 9th of Condie.

Sir Anthony's son, Laurence Oliphant, went on become a well-known author, international traveller, lawyer, and a Member of the House of Commons.

Division of a question

In the British House of Commons, a formal motion is not required to divide the question; since 1888, the Speaker has held that a question consisting of two or more propositions, each of which is able to stand on its own, can be divided on the objection of any Member of Parliament.

Election petition

A recent example of an election being held void was when the 1997 election of Member of Parliament for Winchester, Mark Oaten, (Liberal Democrat) was contested by the Conservative Party candidate Gerry Malone.

Francis John Marnham

In 1906 he was elected Liberal MP for Chertsey at the General Election, gaining the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of just 95 votes.

Freedom of information in the United Kingdom

In 2007, the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill was introduced as a private members bill in the House of the Commons by the Conservative MP David Maclean.

Glasgow Garscadden by-election, 1978

At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Scotstoun.

Hayes FM

Hayes FM was launched out of an initiative between Sutish Sharma, who at that time was working for the BBC, and local MP John McDonnell.

Herman De Croo

First elected in March 1968, he is the longest serving Belgian Member of Parliament.

Isabella Banks

Both her father, James and her mother Amelia were active in politics long before the period when the City of Manchester had its own parliamentary representatives; her father held several official civic roles in his lifetime as a town alderman and magistrate.

John Bernard Stephenson

John Bernard Stephenson (November 24, 1938 – March 30, 1982), also called Jack Stephenson was a Jamaican lawyer and Member of Parliament for North West St. Catherine and founder of the Charlemont High School, Jamaica.

Kjell Elvis

He is also known for having supported his friend Vidar Kleppe, a former MP for the Progress Party, and in 2001 stated that "if Elvis were alive, he would have voted for the Progress Party".

Lord Elibank

He sat as Member of Parliament for Glasgow St Rollox and served as Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire.

Mademoiselle Anaïs

She had an affair with a British Army general and Member of Parliament, Sir Edward Stopford, resulting in the birth in 1819 of a son who also became a British Army general, Edward Stopford Claremont.

Marie-Jo Zimmermann

Marie-Jo Zimmermann (born 29 April 1951) is a French Member of Parliament, for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party.

Monarchism in Georgia

“We, most opposition parties, believe that we should have a parliamentary form of government and its perfect form is a constitutional monarchy,” MP Zviad Dzidziguri of the Conservative Party said on October 8.

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

It is the remake of a 1920 film of the same name, based on the play by Charles William Bell, a Canadian criminal lawyer and later Member of Parliament for Hamilton West and Mark Swan, which opened on Broadway in New York City on Christmas Eve, 1917 and ran for 232 performances.

Queenie Newall

Her grandfather John Fenton was the Member of Parliament for Rochdale following the 1832 and 1837 general elections.

River Doe Lea

The river contained 1000 times the safe level of dioxins in 1991, according to a statement made by Dennis Skinner, (MP) in the House of Commons in 1992.

River Don Navigation

The first Act of Parliament was presented in 1698 by the MP for Thirsk, Sir Godfrey Copley of Sprotborough, representing the interests of Rotherham.

Sajjan Jindal

His youngest brother, Naveen, is a Member of Parliament of India from the Indian National Congress party.He represents Kurukshetra constituency from the state of Haryana.

Scottish Westminster constituencies 1832 to 1868

Except for Edinburgh and Glasgow, which were two-seat constituencies, each Scottish constituency represented a seat for one Member of Parliament (MP).

Scottish Westminster constituencies 1950 to 1955

In Scotland, where boundaries had been unaltered since 1918, the legislation defined 32 burgh constituencies (BCs) and 39 county constituencies (CCs), with each electing one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Ted Bounsall

He remains politically active as part of the Windsor West New Democratic Party Riding Association and is a supporter of NDP Member of Parliament Brian Masse and Windsor Ward 2 City Councillor Ron Jones.

Tom Froese

Froese was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father Jake Froese would later serve as the town's mayor and as a federal Member of Parliament.

Whitmore Square

It was named by the Street Naming Committee after William Wolryche Whitmore, a British Member of Parliament who introduced the South Australia Foundation Act to the British House of Commons.

Whitworth Hall Country Park

The park includes Whitworth Hall, a Grade II listed stately mansion (the ancestral home of Bobby Shafto an 18th century MP) hotel, deer park, lake and Shafto's Inn.


Aloun Ndombet-Assamba

Aloun Ndombet-Assamba served as a government senator and then as Member of Parliament for Saint Ann South Eastern until 2007, when she was succeeded by Lisa Hanna.

Alvington, Gloucestershire

The Forest of Dean is represented in Parliament by Mark Harper MP (Conservative Party).

Andhra Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express

On 6 July 2005, Shri Anjan Kumar Yadav, MP, and Hyderabad mayor, Teegala Krishna Reddy, flagged off the train from Secunderabad station when the service was extended to Tirupati via Kurnool, Dhone and Kadapa.

Augustine Bockarie

Augustine Bockarie is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), who is currently a member of parliament representing Kono District.

Azzam Tamimi

On 28 February 2012, Tamimi appeared at a pro-Palestinian event at Queen Mary, University of London where the former Liberal Democrat MP Baroness Tonge was also a speaker.

Bart Maves

Maves worked as a legislative assistant to federal MP Ken Atkinson, who represented St. Catharines from 1988 to 1993.

Canadian heraldry

In June 2008, MP Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Clifton, Nottingham

Parliamentary, Clifton falls within the Nottingham South constituency, with Lilian Greenwood the current Member of Parliament.

Damianos Kyriazis

He was a Member of Parliament and in 1932 he briefly became Minister of Finance.

Edward Cromwell Disbrowe

Disbrowe's younger daughter Jane Harriet married Henry Christopher Wise of Woodcote House, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire, member of Parliament.

Elijah Mwangale

He was a minister for Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former member of parliament for the Kimilili Constituency.

Ernest Gaunt

His bother, Guy Gaunt, was also an Admiral of the Royal Navy, and later became a Conservative Member of Parliament.

Gateway Plus

This came as Gisela Stuart, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, warned that this development was vital for Birmingham.

Goodluck Ole-Medeye

Goodluck Joseph Ole-Medeye (born 14 March 1958) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Arumeru West constituency since 2010.

Gregor Mackenzie

He became Member of Parliament for Glasgow Rutherglen at a 1964 by-election (where he narrowly beat Norman Buchan at the Labour Party selection meeting).

Gregory Teu

Gregory George Teu (born 3 February 1951) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Mpwapwa constituency since 2010.

Hamilton Square

Features of the square include the town's cenotaph in front of the town hall, a large Queen Victoria Monument at the centre of the gardens and a statue of John Laird, the first Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and the son of William Laird.

Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

Vane entered the foreign service and held posts in Paris and Stockholm before entering the House of Commons in 1841 as a member for South Durham.

Ian McIntyre

Ian McIntyre spent much of the 1960s working at Conservative Central Office in Scotland, and stood unsuccessfully as a Member of Parliament against David Steel.

Indradasa Hettiarachchi

Indradasa Hettiarachchi was a former Minister of Industries and Member of Parliament representing Horana in the Kalutara District, Sri Lanka.

Janner

The Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Devonport, Alison Seabeck, showed her ignorance of the term in 2005 when, while still a candidate, she was asked by the local paper: "What is a Janner?"

Jardine baronets

The Jardine Baronetcy, of Godalming in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1916 for John Jardine, Liberal Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire from 1906 to 1919.

Jim Dobbin

James "Jim" Dobbin (born 26 May 1941) is a British Labour Co-operative politician and microbiologist, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton since 1997.

John David Maloney

After further redistribution in 2004, Maloney defeated Greg D'Amico and fellow Liberal MP Tony Tirabassi for the party's nomination in Welland.

John Laughland

He is also the European director of the European Foundation, a eurosceptic think-tank chaired by Bill Cash MP.

Joseph Slater, Baron Slater

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield in County Durham at the 1950 general election, following the retirement of John Leslie.

Ken Hind

Kenneth Harvand Hind, known as Ken Hind, CBE, (born 15 September 1949) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for West Lancashire from 1983 until 1992, when he was defeated by Labour's Colin Pickthall.

Michael Wharton

Not fictional was the column's presiding spirit, Colonel Sibthorp, an eccentric and reactionary Victorian Member of Parliament, about whom Wharton made a BBC radio documentary in 1954.

Nationwide Festival of Light

John Biggs-Davison (MP for Chigwell): “It is not so much a permissive society as a licentious, callous and cruel society… The Christian strives to imitate Christ who calls him to heroic purity.”

Operation Cauldron

In 1994, the then MP for the area Calum Macdonald called on Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind to intervene to commission an independent report on the test exercises Operations Cauldron and Hesperus in 1952 and 1953, and all similar chemical weapons tests

Philip Battley

He is married to actress Elisa Boyd, is the nephew of television and film actor David Battley, the grandson of Labour MP John Battley,

Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

A national campaign to change the period of service to 20 years was started by Warwickshire Police Officer Kenneth Fowler, and supported by Chief Officers, the Police Federations and Members of Parliament.

Queanbeyan River

Queens Bridge was opened by Wal Fife MP, Minister for Transport and Highways on the 21 July 1975, according to a plaque on the bridge.

Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology

The hospital was established by former Chief Minister of the Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, and former member of National Assembly (MNA), Hanif Abbasi.

Ray Hunter

In June 2011, former Conservative Member of Parliament Rex Barnes challenged him for the PC nomination but Hunter easily defeated him and was re-elected in the October election.

Ribble Valley by-election, 1991

The Ribble Valley by-election, in Lancashire, England, was called in 1991 following the elevation of United Kingdom MP David Waddington to the House of Lords.

Royal Irish Rifle Volunteers

The establishment of the corps was largely instigated by Colonel Fitzstephen French, of Frenchpark, County Roscommon, an MP for that county.

Rural and Urban Political Party

It was founded in June 2010 by MP Samuel Manetoali as a split-away from the Party for Rural Advancement, specifically to take part in the August 2010 general election.

Sheeple

The label has been used by authors of fiction: as a title for Canada's ex-MP Garth Turner's 2009 book, also in numerous other works.

Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Harry Morris, was elevated to the peerage as the first Baron Morris of Kenwood.

Sir John Pryce, 1st Baronet

Sir John Pryce, 1st Baronet (ca. 1596–ca. 1657), sometimes also spelt Price, was an Anglo-Welsh Baronet and Member of Parliament.

Sir William Curtis, 1st Baronet

A lifelong Tory, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London at the 1790 general election.

St Albans, New Zealand

The suburb is inside the Christchurch Central electorate and is represented by Nicky Wagner, who has been the MP since the 2011 election.

Swedish general election, 2014

Discussions on a possible collaboration in the 2014 election will probably not take place in the near future, according to Mikaela Valtersson, member of parliament (MP) of the Green Party.

Verulam House, St Albans

The former stable area provided land for the building of an adjacent Roman Catholic church under the patronage of the local MP of that time, Alexander Raphael.

Wandsworth by-election, 1913

At the 1885 general election, Sir Henry Kimber was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth.

William Addams Williams

He was the eldest son of William Addams Williams of Llangibby Castle, and Caroline Marsh; she was the daughter of Samuel Marsh, who served as Member of Parliament for Chippenham.