Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

In 2009, Defence of the Realm, the authorised history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew, held that while MI5 kept a file on Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP – because communist civil servants claimed that he had similar political sympathies – there was no bugging of his home or office, and no conspiracy against him.

A file was kept on Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP, although the agency's official historian, Christopher Andrew maintains that his fears of MI5 conspiracies and bugging were unfounded.

John Biggs-Davison, MP, in his Foreword to Robert Copping's second book on the history of the club, stated that " by its principles club has kept alive true Tory beliefs and held within its ranks many who contemplated defecting from the Conservative and Unionist Party ".

Orr, by now Rector of the University of Glasgow, was elected as an independent Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Combined Scottish Universities in a by-election in April 1945, and kept his seat at the general election shortly after.

Paul Bryan, the MP for Howden moved an amendment to the Bill that would have created a county of East Yorkshire, covering the rural area of northern Humberside along with Selby and York ( and also Flaxton Rural District ), leaving a Humberside including Haltemprice, Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole, whilst Cleethorpes and Grimsby Rural District would have been kept in Lincolnshire.

The first Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) was Arthur Puttee who founded the Winnipeg Labour Party, and was elected to the House of Commons from Winnipeg, Manitoba in a 1900 by-election and kept his seat at the 1900 federal election held later the same year.

Sowry kept the seat until the 1996 elections, when he unsuccessfully contested the new Otaki seat against Labour's Judy Keall and became a list MP.

He kept pressing the issue and, after Humphry Berkeley ( Conservative MP for Lancaster ) lost his seat in the 1966 general election, Abse became the main sponsor for the legalisation.

A notable feature of his campaign was his promise that, should he win, he would be " a worker's MP on a worker's wage ", a promise he kept, drawing only the equivalent of a fireman's wages and donating the balance of his MP's salary to trades union and political causes.

After stealing an expensive ring at an auction in Vancouver on June 22, 2004 ( and returning it to the police a few days later ), Robinson announced in an emotional news conference that he would be on temporary medical leave from his job as an MP.

His brother Jemmy proposed getting him an Ulster seat, and thought that the prospect of Wilson as an MP would annoy Robertson ( who told Wilson that there was no army job for him in Britain ), but the Irish Unionist leader Carson thought an English seat more sensible.

Brock Millman argued that the threat to stand for Parliament was blackmail to get a military job out of Lloyd George, but Keith Jeffery rejects this, arguing that Wilson would have been no threat as a new MP but as a military adviser was a useful rival to Robertson, whom by July 1917 French was telling Wilson Lloyd George wanted to remove.

He also claimed that being an MP was " not just a job but a calling ".

On 27 March 1784 he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a job to which he dedicated himself once he ceased to act as an MP.

Warnock has been a keen supporter of the British Labour Party, but laughed off any suggestion of him standing as an MP after his career in football, stating " Although there's probably less bullshit in politics than with chairmen, I wouldn't have the patience or restraint to do that job seven days a week.

Two years later, on 23 October 2000, he stood for the job of Speaker of the House of Commons in succession to Betty Boothroyd but was unsuccessful ( 192 votes in favour, 257 against ) and his backbench colleague, Michael Martin MP was elected.

He was followed in the job of chairman by James Macnaghten Hogg MP.

" The job of the MP was to keep them awake, make it hell so they would talk.

Labour MP David Winnick commented to King that " there ’ s been some surprise in the United States but also in Britain that you have a job looking into and investigating into terrorism " and added that King " seems to be an apologist for terrorism.

Duncan's first full-time job after graduating from university was in the office of federal Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) Herb Gray.

There are currently six races in the world of Lineage II: the Humans, who are similar to modern-day humans and who have all-around balanced characteristics ; the Elves, who have superior dexterity, movement, and casting speed, but weaker offense ; Dark Elves, who have higher magic and melee attack capabilities ; Orcs, who have higher HP and MP but slower movement ; Dwarves, who are powerful melee attackers and master craftsmen ; and Kamael, who are humanoids with single wings and gender-specific job classes.

* In a similar vein, Nicholas Mosley's Natalie Natalia centres around an adulterous British MP disillusioned with his job.

In 1992, he left this job and went to work as a researcher for MP for Hartlepool Peter Mandelson.

Grid MP provides job scheduling with prioritization, user security restrictions, selective application exclusion, user-activity detection, and time-of-day execution controls.

He claimed that his position as an independent MP freed him from the obligation to attend caucuses and partisan social events, going as far as suggesting all MPs should get a second job to put them in touch with ordinary people.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, actor John Malkovich when asked whom he would most like to " fight to the death ", replied that he would " rather just shoot " journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

* Colonel Cecil L ' Estrange Malone, British MP and journalist

* John Sands, a Scottish journalist mockingly described by his enemies as " the MP for St Kilda "

The radical MP, soldier, farmer, journalist and publisher William Cobbett was born in Farnham in 1763, in a pub called the Jolly Farmer.

In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, when asked whom he would most like to " fight to the death ", Malkovich replied that he would " rather just shoot " journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.

The journalist Shiela Grant Duff's Penguin Special, Europe and the Czechs was published and distributed to every MP on the day that Chamberlain returned from Munich.

Milligan was in a relationship until 1992 with Julie Kirkbride, a Daily Telegraph journalist who later served as Conservative MP for Bromsgrove from 1997 until 2010.

She is also related to the former Economic Secretary to the Treasury Kitty Ussher, the Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt and the Times journalist Isobel Oakeshott.

Before entering politics on a full-time basis he was a freelance journalist, PR Consultant and researcher for another MP.

* Josef Broukal, journalist and MP

Brian Wilson, journalist and later Labour MP, memorably wrote that calling him by a nice cuddly name like " Teddy " was " like calling the hound of the Baskervilles ' Rover '".

Before being elected as an MP, he was a journalist working for the Granada current affairs programme World in Action and was pivotal in securing the release of the Birmingham Six, a long-standing miscarriage of justice.

He worked as a television journalist from 1979 to 1983, and was then elected as MP for Dagenham from 1983, holding the seat until he resigned on 17 May 1994.

Maybe then I would not have been described by some witty journalist as having ' a good face for radio ' or be told by the late Auberon Waugh that I was ' too fat to be an MP '.

Christopher Paul Farrelly ( born 2 March 1962 ) is a British Labour Party politician and journalist, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 2001.

William O ' Brien ( 2 October 1852 – 25 February 1928 ) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Prior to becoming an MP he was a journalist for the Guardian from 1981 – 97, and was a councillor in Wandsworth from 1971 to 1982.

* Christopher Price, journalist, broadcaster, former MP

* J. M. Robertson ( John Mackinnon Robertson, 1856 – 1933 ), British journalist and Liberal MP for Tyneside 1906 – 1918

In a live interview on BBC television's Newsnight the journalist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris had identified Mandelson as a fellow homosexual.

Many of its attendees have since achieved prominence in their respective fields, including Canadian MP Wai Young, Georgian Cabinet member Vera Kobalia, Leo Award-winning journalist Gloria Macarenko, entrepreneur Markus Frind, field hockey player Rob Short, actress Teejay Sidhu, and others.