Conservative Chief Whip
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This is a list of people who have served as Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, previously the Tory Party, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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[edit] House of Commons
- circa 1802: William Holmes
- 1832: none
- 1835: Sir George Clerk
- 1837: Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle
- 1844: John Young
- 1846: William Beresford
- 1850: Forbes Mackenzie
- 1853: Sir William Hylton Joliffe
- 1859: Colonel Thomas Edward Taylor
- 1868: Gerard Noel
- 1873: Colonel Thomas Edward Taylor
- 1874: Sir William Hart Dyke
- 1880: Rowland Winn
- 1885: Aretas Akers-Douglas
- 1895: Sir William Hood Walrond
- 1902: Sir Alexander Acland Hood
- 1911: Lord Balcarres
- 1913: Lord Edmund Talbot
- 1921: Bolton Eyres-Monsell (knighted in 1929)
- 1931: David Margesson
- 1941: James Stuart
- 1948: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
- 1951: Edward Heath
- 1959: Martin Redmayne
- 1964: William Whitelaw
- 1970: Francis Pym
- 1973: Humphrey Atkins
- 1979: Michael Jopling
- 1983: John Wakeham
- 1987: David Waddington
- 1989: Timothy Renton
- 1990: Richard Ryder
- 1994: Alastair Goodlad
- 1997: James Arbuthnot
- 2001: David Maclean
- 2005: Patrick McLoughlin
[edit] House of Lords
- before 1852: The Earl Nelson
- February 1852: The Lord Colville of Culross
- circa 1870: The Lord Skelmersdale (created Earl of Lathom in 1880)
- July 1885: The Earl of Kintore
- February 1889: The Earl of Limerick
- August 1896: The Earl Waldegrave
- November 1911: The Duke of Devonshire
- 1916: The Lord Hylton
- 1922: The Earl of Clarendon
- 1925: The Earl of Plymouth
- 1929: The Earl of Lucan
- 1940: The Lord Templemore
- 1945: The Earl Fortescue
- 1958: The Earl St Aldwyn
- 1977: The Lord Denham
- 1991: The Lord Hesketh
- 1993: The Viscount Ullswater
- 1994: The Lord Strathclyde
- 1998: The Lord Henley
- 2001: The Lord Cope of Berkeley
- incomplete?
- 2007: The Lady Anelay of St Johns
[edit] Sources
- Chris Cook and Brendan Keith, British Historical Facts 1830-1900, Macmillan, 1975
- David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth-Century British Historical Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000
