The Youngest Members of Parliament

Dates	Member	Party and Constituency	Age
16/7/95-19/7/98	Viscount Milton (William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam)	LU, Wakefield	Born 25th July 1872, elected at the age of 22 years 356 days.
19/7/98-5/10/00	Arthur Hill	C, Down, Western	Born 30th December 1873, elected at the age of 24 years 201 days.
5/10/00-11/11/04	Richard Rigg	L, Westmorland, Appleby	Born 22nd August 1877, elected at the age of 23 years 44 days.
11/11/04-25/1/06	Lord Turnour (Edward Turnour)	C, Sussex, Horsham	Born 4th April 1883, elected at the age of 21 years 144 days.
25/1/06-21/1/10	Lord Wodehouse (John Wodehouse)	L, Norfolk, Mid	Born 11th November 1883, elected at the age of 22 years 75 days.
21/1/10-11/6/12	Hon. Charles Thomas Mills	C, Middlesex, Uxbridge	Born 13th March 1887, elected at the age of 22 years 314 days.
11/6/12-17/6/15	Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, Bt.	C, Hythe	Born 4th December 1888, elected at the age of 23 years 190 days.
17/6/15-24/2/16	John Lymbrick Esmonde	N, Tipperary, Northern	Born 15th December 1893, elected at the age of 21 years 184 days.
24/2/16-28/6/17 *	Patrick Joseph Whitty	N, Louth, Northern	Born 1894, elected at the age of 21 years.
28/6/17??-14/12/18	Lord Stanley (Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley)	C, Liverpool, Abercromby	Born 9th July 1894, elected at the age of 22 years 353 days *
14/12/18-15/11/19	Joseph Aloysius Sweeney	SF, Donegal, Western	Born 13th June 1897, elected at the age of 21 years 184 days †
15/11/19-15/11/22	Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth	Co C, Kent, Isle of Thanet	Born 29th May 1898, elected at the age of 21 years 170 days.
15/11/22-6/12/23	Henry Arthur Evans	NL, Leicester, East	Born 24th September 1898, elected at the age of 24 years 52 days.
6/12/23-29/10/24	Hon. Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys	C, Essex, Romford	Born 21st September 1899, elected at the age of 24 years 76 days.
29/10/24-30/5/29	Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, Bt.	C, Isle of Ely	Born 13th January 1903, elected at the age of 21 years 290 days.
30/5/29-27/10/31	Humphrey Frank Owen	L, Herefordshire, Hereford	Born 27th September 1905, elected at the age of 23 years 245 days.
27/10/31-21/11/33	John Roland Robinson	C, Lancashire, Widnes	Born 22nd February 1907, elected at the age of 23 years 247 days.
21/11/33-29/3/35	Lord Willoughby de Eresby (Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby)	C, Lincolnshire and Rutland, Rutland and Stamford	Born 8th December 1907, elected at the age of 25 years 348 days.
29/3/35-14/11/35	Charles Stuart Taylor	C, Sussex (Eastern), Eastbourne	Born 10th April 1910, elected at the age of 24 years 353 days.
14/11/35-6/3/40	Malcolm Kenneth Macmillan	Lab, Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty, Western Isles	Born 21st August 1913, elected at the age of 22 years 54 days.
6/3/40-18/8/41	John Dennis Profumo	C, Northamptonshire, Kettering	Born 30th January 1915, elected at the age of 25 years 36 days.
18/8/41-30/7/44	Hon. George Charles Grey	L, Northumberland, Berwick-upon-Tweed	Born 2nd December 1918, elected at the age of 22 years 259 days.
30/7/44-26/4/45	John Dennis Profumo	C, Northamptonshire, Kettering	Born 30th January 1915, elected at the age of 25 years 36 days (in the 1940 byelection)
26/4/45-26/7/45	Ernest Rogers Millington	CW, Essex, Chelmsford	Born 15th February 1916, elected at the age of 29 years 70 days.
26/7/45-29/4/48	Hon. Edward Carson	C, Kent, Isle of Thanet	Born 17th February 1920, elected at the age of 25 years 160 days.
29/4/48-23/2/50	Roy Harris Jenkins	Lab, Southwark, Central	Born 11th November 1920, elected at the age of 27 years 171 days.
23/2/50-29/11/50	Peter Arthur David Baker	C, Norfolk, South	Born 20th April 1921, elected at the age of 28 years 310 days.
29/11/50-25/10/51	Thomas Leslie Teevan	C, Belfast, West	Born July 1927, elected at the age of 23 years c. 136 days.
25/10/51-18/2/54	Hon. Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn	Lab, Bristol, South-East	Born 3rd April 1925, elected at the age of 25 years 242 days (in the November 1950 byelection).
18/2/54-26/5/55	John Benedict Eden	C, Bournemouth, West	Born 15th September 1925, elected at the age of 28 years 156 days.
26/5/55-25/10/55	Philip Christopher Clarke	SF, Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Born 1933, elected at the age of 21 years. ††
25/10/55-7/3/57	Peter Michael Kirk	C, Kent, Gravesend	Born 18th May 1928, elected at the age of 27 years 8 days (in the 1955 general election).
7/3/57-20/11/58	Robert Gordon Cooke	C, Bristol, West	Born 29th May 1930, elected at the age of 26 years 282 days.
20/11/58-29/1/59	Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	C, Aberdeenshire, East	Born 10th August 1935, elected at the age of 23 years 102 days.
29/1/59-16/10/64	Henry Paul Guinness Channon	C, Southend, West	Born 9th October 1935, elected at the age of 23 years 112 days.
16/10/64-24/3/65	Edward Macmillan Taylor	C, Glasgow, Cathcart	Born 18th April 1937, elected at the age of 27 years 181 days.
24/3/65-31/3/66	David Martin Scott Steel	L, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles	Born 31st March 1938, elected at the age of 26 years 358 days.
31/3/66-9/3/67	John Ryan	Lab, Middlesex, Uxbridge	Born 30th April 1940, elected at the age of 25 years 335 days.
9/3/67-17/4/69	Leslie John Huckfield	Lab, Warwickshire, Nuneaton	Born 7th April 1942, elected at the age of 24 years 336 days.
17/4/69-28/2/74	Miss Josephine Bernardette Devlin	Unity, Mid-Ulster	Born 23rd April 1947, elected at the age of 21 years 359 days.
28/2/74-10/10/74	Dafydd Elis Thomas	PC, Merioneth	Born 18th October 1946, elected at the age of 27 years 133 days.
10/10/74-29/3/79	Mrs. Hélène Valerie Hayman	Lab, Welwyn and Hatfield	Born 26th March 1949, elected at the age of 25 years 198 days.
29/3/79-3/5/79	David Patrick Paul Alton	L, Liverpool, Edge Hill	Born 15th March 1951, elected at the age of 28 years 14 days.
3/5/79-9/4/81	Stephen James Dorrell	C, Loughborough	Born 25th March 1952, elected at the age of 27 years 39 days.
9/4/81-5/5/81	Robert George Sands	Anti-H Block, Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Born 9th March 1954, elected at the age of 27 years 31 days. †††
5/5/81-20/8/81	Stephen James Dorrell	C, Loughborough	Born 25th March 1952, elected at the age of 27 years 39 days (in the 1979 general election).
20/8/81-9/6/83	Owen Gerard Carron	Anti-H Block, Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Born February/March 1953, elected at the age of 28 years c. 170 days. ††††
9/6/83-12/3/87	Charles Peter Kennedy	SDP, Highland, Ross, Cromarty and Skye	Born 25th November 1959, elected at the age of 23 years 196 days.
12/3/87-1/5/97	Matthew Owen John Taylor	L, Cornwall, Truro	Born 3rd January 1963, elected at the age of 24 years 68 days.
1/5/97-22/6/00	Christopher Michael Leslie	Lab, West Yorkshire, Shipley	Born 28th June 1972, elected at the age of 24 years 307 days.
22/6/00-18/9/03	David Linden Lammy	Lab, Haringey, Tottenham	Born 19th July 1972, elected at the age of 27 years 339 days.
18/9/03-5/5/05	Sarah Louise Teather	L Dem, Brent, Brent East	Born 1st June 1974, elected at the age of 29 years 109 days.
5/5/05-	Jo Swinson	L Dem, Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire	Born 5th February 1980, elected at the age of 25 years 89 days.

Notes:

* Due to the uncertainty about the date of birth of Mr. Whitty it is possible but not certain that Lord Stanley was the youngest MP.

† Mr. Sweeney did not take his seat. The youngest Member who took his seat during this period was Oswald Ernald Mosley (Co C, Middlesex, Harrow) who was born on 16th November 1896 and therefore elected at the age of 22 years 28 days.

†† Mr. Clarke did not take his seat. The youngest Member who took his seat during this period was Peter Michael Kirk - see above.

††† Mr. Sands did not take his seat. The youngest Member who took his seat during this period was Stephen James Dorrell - see above.

†††† Mr. Carron did not take his seat. The youngest Member who took his seat during this period was Stephen James Dorrell - see above.