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    population of 4,038. Since 2019 the ward no longer covers the area, with most of the old ward now in the Woodlands ward. The Manor of Northstead consisted of a...
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    The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead functions as a procedural device to allow a member of Parliament (MP) to resign from...
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  • The Manor of Northstead is a 1954 comedy play by the British writer William Douglas Home. It is a sequel to his 1947 hit The Chiltern Hundreds. The title...
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  • offices of profit: Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. Since the passage of the House of Commons...
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  • the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead are still in use. A hundred is a traditional division of an English county: the Oxford English...
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    stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead are in present use. On 2 March 1624, a resolution was passed by the House of Commons making...
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  • Savile's Crime. In 1954 she starred in William Douglas Home's The Manor of Northstead. She played Guinevere in The Black Knight and Lady Netherden in The...
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  • Manor of East Hendred List of Stewards of the Manor of Hempholme List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead List of Stewards of the Manor of Poynings...
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  • of Stewards of the Manor of East Hendred List of Stewards of the Manor of Hempholme List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead List of Stewards of the...
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    John Bercow (category Speakers of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom)
    being appointed to the Manor of Northstead on 4 November 2019. In 2014, Bercow was appointed Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire. In July 2017...
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    Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885)
    involves applying for the post of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, which he had "no intention" of doing. Thus he was still considered...
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    "office of profit under the Crown" such as the stewardship of the Manor of Northstead disqualifies an individual from sitting in the House of Commons...
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    effectively adds the Crown Stewards and Bailiffs of the Chiltern Hundreds and of the Manor of Northstead to Part III to Schedule 1, thus naming them as...
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  • "office of profit under the Crown", either the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Steward of the Manor of Northstead. Accepting an office of profit...
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    Neil Gray (category Alumni of the University of Stirling)
    he made his final speech in the House of Commons, and was appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead a day later. He is the only SNP member...
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  • Jamie Reed (category Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University)
    taking the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 23 January 2017. "Jamie Reed". Politics.co.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2021. Department of the Official...
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    of Northstead. These offices are sinecures (that is, they involve no actual duties); they exist solely to permit the "resignation" of members of the...
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    Peter McLagan (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons...
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    2004 Hartlepool by-election (category Politics of the Borough of Hartlepool)
    Commissioner for Trade. On 8 September, he accepted the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, thereby disqualifying himself from Parliament, and causing...
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  • Edward Joseph Kennedy (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Sligo constituencies (1801–1922))
    Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Sligo in 1887, resigning in 1888 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from...
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  • Sinecure (category Canon law of the Anglican Communion)
    Paymaster General Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury...
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    Lord Charles Beresford (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Beresford of Metemmeh and of Curraghmore in the County of Waterford. In...
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  • Douglas Home's comedy The Manor of Northstead in the West End. Conquest of the Air (1936) – Minor Role (uncredited) Sword of Honour (1939) – Unlisted (uncredited)...
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    Martin McGuinness (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Mid Ulster)
    of the Manor of Northstead on 2 January 2013 by Chancellor George Osborne, making him an employee of the Crown and thus ineligible for membership of the...
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    Neil Parish (category Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom)
    yesterday." On 4 May, he was appointed Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, disqualifying him as an MP and vacating his seat. At the by-election...
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    Glasgow East (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2005)
    because of a stress-related illness; he was appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 30 June 2008, thus effectively resigning from the House of Commons...
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    2000 Ceredigion by-election (category History of Ceredigion)
    House of Commons in order to concentrate on his work in the Assembly. By accepting the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on...
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  • cuttingsarchive.org. "Production of Malvern Festival - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. "Production of The Manor of Northstead | Theatricalia". theatricalia...
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  • Robert Preston Bruce (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    division of Fife. He was re-elected unopposed in 1886, and resigned his seat on 21 June 1889 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. Mosley, Charles...
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    Peter Soulsby (category Alumni of the University of Leicester)
    Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, effecting his resignation from the House of Commons. Sir Peter Soulsby was elected Mayor of Leicester on 5...
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