List of Stewards of the Manor of Old Shoreham

This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of Old Shoreham, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was formerly used to resign from the House of Commons.

December 1756: Thomas Ryder (Tiverton)
4 July 1757: James Hayes (Downton)
March 1760: George Gray (Winchelsea)
20 February 1762: John Hamilton (Wigtownshire)
13 March 1762: Hon. Keith Stewart (Wigtown Burghs)
27 April 1762: William Fitzherbert (Bramber)
10 February 1763: Hon. Augustus John Hervey (Bury St Edmunds) on appointment as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.
March 1763: Browse Trist (Totnes)
12 November 1763: Thomas Morgan (Brecon borough) To contest Monmouthshire
30 May 1765: Philip Stanhope (St Germans) Sold his seat to the government.
11 July 1799: Sir William Grant (Banffshire) On appointment as Solicitor General for England and Wales.

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