Liberal Chief Whip
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This is a list of people who served as Chief Whip of the Liberal Party (previously known as the Whigs) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Liberal Party merged into the Liberal Democrats in 1988.
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[edit] House of Commons
- 1830: Edward Ellice
- 1832: Charles Wood
- 1834: Francis Thornhill Baring
- 1835: Edward John Stanley
- 1841: Richard More O'Ferrall
- 1846: Henry Tufnell
- 1850: William Goodenough Hayter
- 1858: none
- 1859: Henry Bouverie William Brand
- 1866: George Grenfell Glyn
- 1873: Arthur Wellesley Peel
- 1874: William Patrick Adam
- 1880: Lord Richard Grosvenor
- 1885: Arnold Morley
- 1892: Edward Marjoribanks
- 1894: T. E. Ellis
- 1899: none
- 1900: Herbert Gladstone
- 1905: G. Whiteley
- 1908: J. Pease
- 1910: The Master of Elibank
- 1912: P. Illingworth
- 1915: J. Gulland
- 1919: none (J. Hogge and G. Thorne were joint whips)
- 1923: V. Phillips
- 1924: Sir G. Collins
- 1926: R. Hutchinson
- 1930: Sir A. Sinclair
- 1932: W. Rea
- 1935: Sir P. Harris
- 1945: T. Horabin
- 1946: F. Byers
- 1950: J. Grimond
- 1956: D. Wade
- 1962: A. Holt
- 1963: E. Lubbock
- 1970: D. Steel
- 1976: C. Smith
- 1977: A. Beith
- 1985: D. Alton
- 1987: J. Wallace
[edit] House of Lords
- 1837: The Viscount Falkland
- 1840: none? (Lord Falkland was absent serving as Governor of Nova Scotia)
- 1846: The Viscount Falkland
- May 1848: The Earl of Bessborough
- January 1880: The Lord Monson (created Viscount Oxenbridge in 1886)
- August 1892: The Lord Kensington
- October 1896: The Lord Ribblesdale
- May 1907: The Lord Denman
- 1911: The Lord Colebrooke
- 1922: none (The Lord Denman was Independent Liberal Chief Whip 1919-1924)
- 1924: The Lord Stanmore
- 1944: The Viscount Mersey
- 1949: The Marquess of Willingdon
- 1950: The Lord Moynihan
- 1950: The Lord Rea
- 1955: The Lord Amulree
- 1977: The Lord Wigoder
- 1984: The Lord Tordoff
[edit] Chief Whips of the National Liberal Party (Coalition Liberals), 1916-1923
- 1916: Neil Primrose
- 1916: Frederick Guest
- 1921: Charles McCurdy
- 1922: Edward Hilton Young
[edit] Chief Whips of the Liberal National Party (later National Liberal Party), 1931-1966
- 1931: Alec Glassey
- 1931: Geoffrey Shakespeare
- 1932: James Blindell (knighted in 1936)
- 1937: Charles Kerr
- 1940: Herbert Holdsworth
- 1945: Herbert Butcher (knighted in 1953; created a Baronet in 1960)
[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
