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Status checklist

This lists all Parliaments now entered with per-term membership items and full metadata.

UK

The checks

• Imported - brought in from external source
• Wikipedia - all MPs in relevant English Wikipedia category are present
• Constituencies - all constituencies are valid (existed during the relevant period)
• Parties - party data added
• Changes - mid-term changes (of party) checked against a list

Term

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Seats

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Seats

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Overall status

Maintenance queries

member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582546)

1832-34

658

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582548)

1835-37

658

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582550)

1837-41

658

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582553)

1841-47

658

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582555)

1847-52

656

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582556)

1852-57

654

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582557)

1857-59

654

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582558)

1859-65

654

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582559)

1865-68

658

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582560)

1868-74

658

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582563)

1874-80

652

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582565)

1880-85

652

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582568)

1885-86

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582570)

1886-92

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582572)

1892-95

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582573)

1895-1900

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582575)

1900-06

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582577)

1906-10

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

One case with an ambiguous end date

Y

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member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582579)

1910-10

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Two cases with ambiguous end dates

Y

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member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582581)

1910-18

670

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

One case with an ambiguous end date

Y

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member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582582)

1918-22

707

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Five cases with ambiguous end dates

Y

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member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582584)

1922-23

615

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582585)

1923-24

615

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582587)

1924-29

615

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Four unusual cases (three ambiguous end dates, one unclear if seat vacated before dissolution)

Y

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member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582588)

1929-31

615

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582591)

1931-35

615

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582593)

1935-45

615

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582597)

1945-50

640

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582600)

1950-51

625

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582603)

1951-55

625

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582604)

1955-59

630

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582606)

1959-64

630

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582608)

1964-66

630

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582609)

1966-70

630

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Need dates for Liberal Nationals; sort defence rebels

Y

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member of the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582612)

1970-74

630

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 46th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582615)

1974-74

635

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 47th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582617)

1974-79

635

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582619)

1979-83

635

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582621)

1983-87

650

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582624)

1987-92

650

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q41582627)

1992-97

651

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q36634044)

1997-2001

659

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q35921591)

2001-05

659

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q35647955)

2005-10

646

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q35494253)

2010-15

650

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q30524718)

2015-17

650

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q30524710)

2017-2019

650

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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member of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q77685926)

2019-

650

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Updated as of end 2020

Y

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• Exact dates of resignations have not been checked against an official list (eg); they may be a day or two out in some cases (eg day it was announced rather than formal date of resignation). Will confirm when matching to specific resignation items.
• Forms of leaving a party (withdrawn, expelled, "left", etc) may need double-checking for consistency - most currently lumped under "left"

Scotland

Member of the 1st Scottish Parliament (Q30580541)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-07-31	Y P463 removed
Member of the 2nd Scottish Parliament (Q30580542)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-07-31	Y P463 removed
Member of the 3rd Scottish Parliament (Q30580544)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-07-31	Y P463 removed
Member of the 4th Scottish Parliament (Q30580545)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-07-31	Y P463 removed
Member of the 5th Scottish Parliament (Q30580546)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-07-31	Y P463 removed

Northern Ireland

Member of the 6th Northern Ireland Assembly (Q37279107)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-09-25	Y P463 removed
Member of the 5th Northern Ireland Assembly (Q37279037)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-09-25	Y P463 removed
Member of the 4th Northern Ireland Assembly (Q37279086)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked	2017-09-25	Y P463 removed
Member of the 3rd Northern Ireland Assembly (Q37303713)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Some end causes missing.	2017-09-25	Y P463 removed
Member of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly (Q37303721)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Some end causes missing.	2017-09-25	Y P463 removed
Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (Q37303731)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked.	2017-09-25	Y P463 removed

Wales

Member of the 5th National Assembly for Wales (Q42310659)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked.	2017-11-12	Y P463 removed
Member of the 4th National Assembly for Wales (Q42310652)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked.	2017-11-12	Y P463 removed
Member of the 3rd National Assembly for Wales (Q42310648)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked.	2017-11-12	Y P463 removed
Member of the 2nd National Assembly for Wales (Q42310642)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked.	2017-11-12	Y P463 removed
Member of the 1st National Assembly for Wales (Q42310633)	Electoral data report Personal data report Holders by date Constituency check	Y All electoral data checked.	2017-11-12	Y P463 removed

Known problem cases

Where possible, these have been assigned to a month; this will show up in most queries as happening on the first of the month, which is not perfect but will work reasonably well for most modelling purposes and not be out by more than a few weeks.

Being transferred to Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Notes and issues

1847-52 Parliament

• John Scandrett Harford (Q15512861) was technically never an MP, but should be modelled in some way (HoP)

1857-59 Parliament

• John Moyer Heathcote (Q6249668) was technically never an MP, but should be modelled in some way (HoP)

1868-72 Parliament

• John Aldridge (Q26250395) & Robert Henry Hurst (Q7345432) were both returned at the election for the single-member seat of Horsham; Aldridge later withdrew his claim. This currently is modelled as both being returned at the election and Aldridge having his election overturned on petition.

1874-80 Parliament

• Sir John Ennis, 2nd Baronet (Q7527760) & Edward Sheil (Q5345298) had a tied election. The court ruled in favour of Sheil in April (27 April); we have only listed Sheil as the member and have omitted Ennis.

History of Parliament import

Volume	1386-1421	1509-1558	1558-1603	1604-1629	1660-1690	1690-1715	1715-1754	1754-1790	1790-1820	1820-1832
Initial import	Y	Y	Y	partial (to 1640)	partial (to 1640)	very partial (to 1640)	-	-	-	-
Import completeness check	Y	Y	Y
Edge cases identified	Y	Y	Y
Edge cases corrected	Y
Errors logged	Y
All validated!	Y
Constituency count check	Y

• 1386-1421 import data check

• 1509-1558 import data check
• MPs in 1509-1558 sourced only to another volume
• 1558-1603 import data check
• MPs in 1558-1603 sourced only to another volume
• 1604-1629 import data check
• MPs in 1604-1629 sourced only to another volume

• English MPs with potential seat number discrepancies

Known issues

1386-1421

• Simon Lymbergh (Q24233451) is shown as holding seats in 1419 and 1470 - per the constituency page this should be 1420. done
• Robert Whelpington (Q24233792) is listed as sitting for London on five occasions, but this appears to be a mistake and it should be Newcastle. Recorded as Newcastle.
• John Hobildod (Q16239931) is typoed as serving in "416"; was March 1416. done
• Thomas Hussey (Q16226439) is shown as a member of the "1421 parliament" - per the constituency page this should be December 1421. done
• Thomas Burford (Q53219991) is shown as "Nov. 1383" - presumably October 1383. done
• David White (Q54322010) is shown as "Nov. 1383" - presumably October 1383. done
• Thomas Brigge (Q53219755) is shown as Bishop's Lynn in 1391, but there are three MPs listed this year; the constituency page gives him as 1393. Recorded as 1393.
• William Walkeden (Q24233775) is shown as Melcombe Regis in 1402, but there are three MPs listed this year; the constituency page gives him as 1420. Recorded as 1420.
• Gregory Aure (Q24232947) is shown as Bath in 1406, but Lostwithiel on the constituency page; here are three MPs listed for Bath this year, so the latter seems more accurate. Recorded as Lostwithiel.
• Thomas Hyweye (Q54321525) is shown as Midhurst in 1406, 1414/11, & 1415, but should be Malmesbury per the constituency page. Recorded as Malmesbury.
• Thomas Barbour (Q24232962) is shown only as "BARBOUR, alias FRYE" in HoP

1509-1558

• Thomas Lovell (Q7791938) is shown as only attending 1485 & 1491, but the text implies several other years as well
• Nicholas Hare (Q15990019) has an unknown constituency in 1539
• Edward Hall (Q713043) has an unknown constituency in 1539
• John Aylworth (Q21592170) is shown as 1553 - should be March 1553. done
• Bertram Anderson (Q26424674) is shown as 1554 twice - should be April & November. done
• Francis Bigod (Q5480227) is only shown as attending in 1529-36, but the text suggests he attended the 1536 Parliament as well.
• Robert Pakington (Q16513648) is only shown as attending in 1529-36 and "may have sat again" in 1536, but the ODNB concludes he attended the 1536 Parliament as well.
• John Greville (Q28202964) is down as "maybe" for 1542 in HoP; listed here.
• John Smith (Q6258402) is shown as 1553 and 1554; should be March 1553 and Nov 1554.
• John Cock (Q16204723) is shown as "March 1533"; typo for March 1553.
• John Prise (Q3401718) is shown as "April 1553"; typo for April 1554.
• John Brocket (Q16205396) is shown as 1553; should be October 1553.

1509-1558 & 1558-1603 crossmatch issues

• freeman-robert-i and freeman-robert-ii are identified as different people by 1509-1558; however, 1558-1603 tentatively links them. Provisionally assigned as Robert Freeman (Q54556091) (-i, Bletchingley) and Robert Freeman (Q53337557) (-ii, Southwark, inc 1558-1603, but with Bletchingley removed so totals for that vol will need corrected).

1558-1603

• William Brock (Q52848002) has a 1558-1603 entry which misses his 1604 term (listed in that volume).
• James Perrot (Q6141170) has his 1626 term as blank in 1558-1603, but listed as Camelford in 1604-29.
• Guthlac Edwards (Q53646384) is given as "Gutlhlac" on the biography but "Guthlac" on the constituency page, which seems more likely.

1790-1820

• F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (Q312591) has 1790-1820 and 1820-1832 entries, but both are displayed as 1820-32 URLs. No change made.
• John Benett (Q16885499) is shown as serving until his death on 1 Oct 1852 by the 1790-1820 volume, but retiring at the 1852 election by the 1820-1832 volume. Contemporary newspapers confirm he stood down at the election and 1790-1820 is in error.

1820-1832

• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (Q157259) is shown as South Devon in 1835-41; this should be Stroud.
• Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet (Q7528837) is shown as Herefordshire 1845-1857; this should be Hereford.
• George Wilbraham (Q16887005) is shown as Cheshire North 1832-1841; this should be Cheshire South.
• George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (Q5545476) is shown as Derbyshire North 1832-1841; this should be Derbyshire South.
• Thomas Rider (Q7793544) is shown as East Kent 1832-34; this should be West Kent
• James Wentworth Buller (Q6145332) is shown as sitting until the 1865 general election, but died a few months earlier
• Edmund Samuel Hayes (Q7526493) is shown as sitting until 30 June 1860, but died on 23 June.
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed (Q1230504) is shown as sitting until 17 July 1839, but died on 15 July.
• William Blamire (Q11800932) is shown as resigning on 22 Aug 1836, but the writ was moved on 19 Aug (Journals). Entered as 1836-08
• Henry Fitzroy (Q5721297) is shown as Lewes from 21 Nov. 1842 - this should be 21 March, date of ruling & return amendment (Journals)
• Thomas Wyse (Q3525682) is shown as Waterford from 13 June 1842; should this be 10 June? Ruling was delivered that day but returns only amended on the 13th. Entered as 10 June
• Patrick Maxwell Stewart (Q22020670) is shown as leaving office on 20 October 1846; this is probably a typo for 30 October, when he died. Entered as 30 October
• Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham (Q5076148) is shown as East Surrey 1832-41, but this should be East Sussex
• Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer (Q3132669) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 23 March 1871, but the creation was dated 21 March. Entered as 21 March.
• Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (Q17321359) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 12 May 1848; the creation was dated 8 May but published 12 May. Entered as 8 May.
• William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton (Q8013712) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 16 July 1866; the creation was dated 12 July and published 13 July. Entered as 12 July.
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Q318462) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 14 July 1866; the creation was dated 12 July and published 13 July. Entered as 12 July.
• John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (Q6262857) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 16 April 1868; the creation was dated 11 April and published 14 April. Entered as 11 April.
• Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury (Q334203) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 10 March 1835; the creation was dated 28 Feb and published 3 March. Entered as 28 February.
• James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (Q332679) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 7 June 1839; the creation was dated 28 May and published the same day. Entered as 28 May.
• Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (Q652514) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 10 April 1835; the creation was dated 8 April and published 10 April. Entered as 8 April.
• Thomas Kavanagh (Q25863363) is shown as serving from 1835 to his death in 1837, but the situation was somewhat more complex - elected, petition, restood, defeated, petition, seated.
• Robert Grant (Q2157350) is shown as ending his term in June 1834; we have this as 18 June, when he was appointed Governor. Entered as 18 June.
• Daniel Callaghan (Q5216731) is shown as serving from the 1835 election, but we have him as seated on petition from 18 April 1835
• William Addams Williams (Q8004161) is shown as serving until the 1841 election, but he appears to have resigned in early 1841 (writ moved 26 January)

• John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (Q3809125) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 12 May 1835; the creation was dated and published 8 May. Entered as 8 May.
• Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne (Q5290904) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 4 May 1836; the creation was dated and published 12 April, and the writ was moved that day. Entered as 12 April.
• Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham (Q4670298) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 20 January 1836; the creation was dated and published 19 January. Entered as 19 January.
• Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg (Q333452) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 11 May 1835; the creation was dated 4 May and published 5 May. Entered as 4 May.
• Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton (Q5344160) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 11 May 1835; the creation was dated and published 8 May. Entered as 8 May.

• Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden (Q7350603) is shown as leaving office and being created a peer on 28 June 1859; the creation was dated 25 June. Entered as 25 June.

• Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet (Q7528355) is shown as at Grantham 1826 - 1841; this should be 1826 - 1831.
• Daniel O'Connell (Q314917) is shown as being unseated on 31 March 1836; this should be 16 May 1836 (31 March is when the other unseated member had died).

• Sir George Hill, 2nd Baronet (Q17318673) is shown as County Londonderry 1802-1830; this should be the borough throughout.

• Richard Weyland (Q7329921) was returned for Weymouth in 1831, as well as Oxfordshire, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (Q157259) was returned for Tavistock in 1831, as well as Devon, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington (Q1699992) was returned for Liverpool in 1831, as well as Nottinghamshire, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (Q5881202) was returned for Malton in 1831, as well as Perth, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• Stephen Lushington (Q7609831) was returned for Winchelsea in 1831, as well as Ilchester, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt (Q5082888) was returned for Bletchingley in 1831, as well as Stamford, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• Richard Lalor Sheil (Q7327224) was returned for Milborne Port in 1831, as well as Co. Louth, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.
• Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (Q5083446) was returned for Higham Ferrers in 1831, as well as Northamptonshire, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1831-05.

• Gibbs Antrobus (Q17180507) was returned for Plympton at the 1830 and 1831 general elections, but these terms are not indexed. Entered as serving those terms.

• Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue (Q5359607) was returned for Tavistock in 1830, as well as Devon, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1830-08.

• John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (Q6253138) was returned for Bandon in 1826, as well as Kilkenny, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1826-07.
• Horace Seymour (Q5902125) was returned for Orford in 1826, as well as Bodmin, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1826-07.
• Sir Alexander Grant, 8th Baronet (Q7525941) was returned for Lostwithiel in 1826, as well as Aldborough, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1826-07.
• John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (Q6253138) was returned for Downton in 1826, as well as Oxford University, but not indexed as such. Entered as chose to sit elsewhere in 1826-07.

Useful links

• Crossref to Cheffins 1998. Parliamentary constituencies and their registers since 1832
• Chiltern Hundreds lists
• Welsh historic summaries
• Early Lancashire MPs
• Early Gloucestershire MPs
• Wedgwood HoP 1439-1509

Properties for parliamentary terms

Items for parliamentary terms should use:

instance of (P31) : parliamentary term in the United Kingdom (Q21094819), parliamentary term in the Kingdom of Great Britain (Q21095053) etc

follows (P155)

followed by (P156)

start time (P580)

• with qualifier significant event (P793):State Opening of Parliament (Q1550193)

end time (P582)

• with qualifier significant event (P793):dissolution of parliament (Q741182)

elected in (P2715): relevant general election

Open questions to resolve

• Should we include electoral data, such as seat majorities? How?

• How should we handle the 1653-1659 Commonwealth/Protectorate parliaments?

Maintenance queries

• MPs with a father/mother missing a corresponding child

• MPs with a child missing a corresponding father/mother

• MSPs with a lookup list of qualifiers

• Scottish Parliament constituencies report

• All MPs sitting on a given date (good to check for duplicates)

• Constituencies with start/end dates, type, "same as", and WP articles

• All constituencies used in a UK MP item

• MPs who died before the end of their term

• All Welsh AMs (for all five Assemblies) with their electoral terms

• All current Welsh AMs

• MPs with "unknown" start or end dates (date needs traced)

• MPs with two birth years
• MPs with two death years

• MPs with an end date on 31 December - may indicate an import issue

• MPs missing from the English Wikipedia

• MPs not matched to Historic Hansard

• Entries with multiple conflicting standard qualifiers

• Checklist to find missing values

• MPs with a missing or unknown death-date

• MPs who left before dissolution, and do not appear to have been replaced

• Terms ending on dissolution day but not marked as such

• Terms marked as ending at dissolution, but falling on the wrong day

• All by-elections in a given Parliament

• MPs whose terms began after their constituency was dissolved

• MPs whose terms began before their constituency was created

• MPs 1832-date who are in WP, but don't seem to have useful metadata on WD

• Wikipedia articles that may be about an MP not identified as such in WD

• Wikipedia MP articles (or related) with no WD link at all

• Term membership numbers & categories etc
  • WP pages in MP categories whose items do not have the specific term claims

• "Significant event" and "nature of statement" qualifiers

• Items missing P2937 qualifiers

• MPs with some party affiliations but missing others

• MPs with a duplicate genealogical identifier - probably mergable

• Periods with a missing speaker

• Terms missing party

• All changes in a particular term

• Index of all Rush MPs and their terms with various metadata

• All seats in a specific term and how many MPs they returned at the relevant election; and with errors only, over a period of several years

• Query to crossref terms to add party data

• Proof of concept code for Julian-Gregorian date conversion
  • With more years

History of Parliament

• Live count of the number of identifiers matched
• Items with duplicated identifiers
• Items with two entries from the same volume (nb Frederick Robinson is a known bug)
• Full list of volume crossmatches

Volume	1386-1421	1509-1558	1558-1603	1604-1629	1660-1690	1690-1715	1715-1754	1754-1790	1790-1820	1820-1832
WP articles by category without the correct HoP volume	-	[1]	[2]	[3]	[4]	[5]	[6]	[7]	[8]	[9]
Died too early	[10]	[11]	[12]	[13]	[14]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[18]	[19]

• People in 1386-1421 WP cats but not in HoP
• People with 1386-1421 terms but not in HoP
• People in 1509-1629 WP cats but not in HoP
• People with 1509-1629 terms but not in HoP
• People in 1660-1832 WP cats but not in HoP
• People with 1660-1832 terms but not in HoP