Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

He defeated the sitting Conservative incumbent candidate, Sir Arthur Evans, by 17, 489 votes to 11, 545.

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.

As of the 2009 election, all three sitting county councillors are members of the Conservative party.

As of the 2011 election, all eighteen of the sitting borough councillors represent the Conservative party.

In June 1982, Howard was selected to contest the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe in Kent after the sitting Conservative MP, Sir Albert Costain, decided to retire.

The Conservative majority of 11, 382 was still large enough to be regarded as a safe seat ; when the sitting MP John Peyton stood down at the 1983 general election to be made a life peer, however, Ashdown had gained momentum after his years of local campaigning.

In 1910, he became MP for Bow and Bromley, when the sitting Conservative MP retired and the Liberals supported his candidature.

The sitting Conservative MP, John Hannam had retired and the Conservatives chose Adrian Rogers to be their candidate.

He was chosen as a Liberal Candidate in Peel County to contest the general election for the House of Commons in 1891 against the sitting Conservative member W. A. McCulla.

At the 1987 general election Arbuthnot was chosen to contest the safe Conservative seat of Wanstead and Woodford as the sitting MP, Patrick Jenkin, was standing down.

He unsuccessfully contested Bristol East at the 1987 general election where he finished in third place, some 11, 659 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Jonathan Sayeed.

Tatton was one of the safest Conservative seats in the country, where the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, Neil Hamilton, was embroiled in " sleaze " allegations.

He indicated that he might stand against Hazel Blears in Salford ( the first sitting MP of a party other than the Conservative party against whom he expressed an interest in standing ) although in the end he did not stand in any constituency.

In October and November, during the course of the PC party's process of ratifying the merger, four sitting Progressive Conservative MPs — André Bachand, John Herron, former Tory leadership candidate Scott Brison, and former Prime Minister Joe Clark — announced their intention not to join the new Conservative Party caucus, as did retiring PC Party president Bruck Easton.

In general, most seats it did not contest had sitting Eurosceptic Conservative MPs ; however, some prominent pro-European MPs from all parties were not opposed because they supported putting the issue to the vote.

With both backbenchers and frontbenchers able to attend meetings, the 1922 Committee now encompasses all sitting Conservative members of the House of Commons, although frontbench members attend by invitation and cannot participate in elections and is similar to the Parliamentary Labour Party.

He entered Parliament at the 1987 General Election in Edinburgh Central defeating the sitting Conservative MP Sir Alexander Fletcher by 2, 262 votes, and has remained an MP since.

Mark chose not to return to the Alliance caucus, instead sitting as an Independent Conservative, then joining the PC caucus in early 2003.

Curry was elected to the House of Commons for the very safe Conservative seat of Skipton and Ripon at the 1987 general election on the retirement of the sitting Conservative MP John Watson.

Field unsuccessfully contested the constituency of South Buckinghamshire at the 1966 General Election, where he was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Ronald Bell.

George contested Southport at the 1970 general election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Ian Percival, coming third in the poll.

From 1987 to 1992, he was the oldest sitting British MP ( preceding former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath ).

It is not actually clear as to whether there are age or citizenship restrictions on the position of prime minister itself, as it is not necessary for the incumbent to be a sitting MP.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

With that success he was picked as the Labour Party candidate for Ebbw Vale ( displacing the sitting MP ), and easily held the seat at the 1929 General Election.

Peel's acolyte Monckton Milne MP said of Villiers at the time of this concession during 1842 that he was " the solitary Robinson Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Iain Duncan Smith has been the sitting MP since 1992.

John Randall was first elected to represent Uxbridge in a 1997 by-election after the sitting MP, Sir Michael Shersby, died shortly after the 1997 general election.

David Kirkwood, MP for Clydebank where the unfinished hull 534 had been sitting idle for two and a half years, made a passionate plea in the House of Commons for funding to finish the ship and restart the dormant British economy.

Upon the death of Piara Khabra in June 2007, Paisley became the oldest sitting British MP.

In March 1946, British Labour Party MP Richard Crossman gave the following description of activity at the hotel: " private detectives, Zionist agents, Arab sheiks, special correspondents, and the rest, all sitting around about discreetly overhearing each other.

* In 1983, Labour MP John Golding talked for over 11 hours during an all-night sitting at the committee stage of the British Telecommunications Bill.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election for Ashfield, making his maiden speech on 20 May 1992, following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP, Frank Haynes.

The by-election was caused by the resignation and elevation to the House of Lords of the sitting MP, John Boyd-Carpenter, on his appointment as head of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) by the Prime Minister at the time, Edward Heath.

When Joseph Devlin, an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, tried to bring up the Croke Park killings at Westminster, he was shouted down and a scuffle broke out in the parliament ; the sitting had to be suspended.

In 1907 Sinn Féin unsuccessfully contested a by-election in North Leitrim, where the sitting MP, one Charles Dolan of Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, had defected to Sinn Féin.

Appointment to an " office of profit under the Crown " disqualifies an individual from sitting as a Member of Parliament ( MP ).

Beckett was chosen to fight the parliamentary seat of Derby South after the retirement of the sitting MP, Walter Johnson.

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

It was shown that Edward had visited the Mordaunts ' house while Sir Charles was away sitting in the House of Commons.

Galahad isolates himself because he is a “ self-centered figure .” Morris ’ poem places this emotional conflict at center stage, rather than concentrating upon Galahad ’ s prowess for defeating external enemies, and the cold and the frost of a Christmas period serve to reinforce his “ chilly isolation .” The poem opens on midwinter's night ; Sir Galahad has been sitting for six hours in a chapel, staring at the floor.

His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth ( 1844 – 1939 ), the eldest, became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in parliament for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth.

Fortunately, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was in attendance ; as the local JP ( and also the sitting Member of Parliament ), he went next door, opened the Court, extended the hotel's licensing hours, thus enabling the meeting to continue.

King was elected to Parliament at the 1970 Bridgwater by-election, following the death of the sitting MP, Sir Gerald Wills.

The first Chief Justice of Australia, Samuel Griffith | Sir Samuel Griffith, is administered the judicial oath at the first sitting of the High Court, in the Banco Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria, 6 October 1903.

This has happened twice in the past, with Chief Justices Robert Taschereau and Sir Lyman Poore Duff acting as Governor General for brief periods following the death of a sitting Governor General.

The Hansard of the day's sitting shows that Sir Billy refused to put the question that ' the honourable member for Wills ( Hawke ) be suspended from the services of the House ' so that Parliament can function for that day.

Already on 8 February 1395 / 96 he was, on a commission with several knights and clerks to hear an appeal in a case of John Molton, Esquire v. John Shawe, citizen of London, from Sir John Cheyne kt., sitting for the constable of England in a court of chivalry.

In 1897 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of South Murchison, sitting as a supporter of Sir John Forrest's government.

After realising that the House would be unworkable for that sitting day, Sir Billy declined to put the motion for Hawke's suspension.

Before the 2001 General Election he was selected as Conservative candidate for the very safe seat of Huntingdon, following the retirement of sitting MP and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir John Major.

From the retirement of Sir Edward Heath in 2001 until his death, Khabra was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons, and at the end of his career was the only sitting MP to have served in the forces during the Second World War.

In an excerpt from his autobiography, Sir James is quoted as saying: " The imprinting mathematical influence was Dr Waterson at Beath High School, a brilliant and rumbustious teacher, who more or less man-handled me into sitting the competitive entrance examination for St Andrews University.

Undeterred, he cultivated the more winnable Spen Valley until 1929 when the party resolved not to oppose sitting Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) Sir John Simon while he was absent on the Simon Commission in India.

When one of the town's sitting members of parliament, Admiral Sir George Brooke-Pechell, died in 1860 the local Conservative organisation nominated him as candidate in the ensuing by-election.