List of United Kingdom MPs: A

Following is an incomplete list of past and present Members of Parliament (MPs) of the United Kingdom whose surnames begin with A. Linked years lead to articles about the election of that year

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NameImagePartyFirst electedConstituencyOther positionsCharles AbbotTory1801Helston (1801–1802) Heytesbury (1802)

Woodstock (1802–1806)

Oxford University (1806–1817)Speaker of the House of Commons (1802–1817) Chief Secretary for Ireland (1801–1802)

Also member of the Parliament of Great Britain

Later ennobled as Baron ColchesterDiane AbbottLabour1987Hackney North and Stoke Newington (1987–present)Shadow Home Secretary (2016–2020)

Shadow Health Secretary (2016)

Shadow International Development Secretary (2015–2016)

Shadow Minister for Public Health (2010–2013)Jack AbbottLabour2024Ipswich (2024–present)Sir William AbdyIndependent1817Malmesbury (1817–1818)Alexander AbercrombyIndependent1817Clackmannanshire (1817–1818)George AbercrombyIndependent1805Edinburgh (1805–1806) Clackmannanshire (1806–1807, 1812–1815)Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire (1837–1843) Later ennobled as Baron AbercrombyGeorge Ralph AbercrombyIndependent1824Clackmannanshire (1824–1826, 1830–1831)

Stirlingshire (1838–1841)

Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire

(1841–1842)Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire (1840–1852) Later ennobled as Baron AbercrombyJames AbercrombyWhig1807Midhurst (1807–1812) Calne (1812–1830)

Edinburgh (1832–1839)Speaker of the House of Commons (1835–1839)

Master of the Mint (1834–1835)

Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer (1830–1832)

Judge-Advocate-General (1827–1828)

Later ennobled as Baron AbercrombySir John AbercrombyIndependent1815Clackmannanshire (1815–1817)Sir Robert AbercrombyIndependent1812Banffshire (1812–1818)Sir Charles Abney-HastingsTory1826Leicester (1826–1831)High Sheriff of Derbyshire (1825–1826)William AbrahamLiberal-Labour1885Rhondda (1885–1910)Treasurer of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (1904–1918) President of the South Wales Miners' Federation (1898–1812)LabourRhondda (1910–1918) Rhondda West (1918–1918)Debbie AbrahamsLabour2011Oldham East and Saddleworth (2011–present)Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary (2016–2018) Shadow Minister for Disabled People (2015–2016)Leo AbseLabour1958Pontypool (1958–1983) Torfaen (1983–1987)Chair of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee (1980–1981)Archibald AchesonTory1801County Armagh (1801–1807)Governor General of British North America (1835–1837) Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (1934, 1935)

Also Member of the Parliament of Ireland

Later ennobled as Baron WorlinghamArchibald AchesonWhig1830Armagh (1830–1847)Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (1864) Later ennobled as Baron AchesonBenjamin St John AckersConservative1885West Gloucestershire (1885–1885)James AckersConservative1841Ludlow (1841–1847)Thomas AckroydLiberal1923Manchester Moss Side (1923–1924)Sir Arthur Dyke AclandLiberal1885Rotherham (1885–1899)President of the National Liberal Federation (1906–1907) Vice-president of the Committee on Education (1892–1895)Sir Charles Thomas Dyke AclandLiberal1882East Cornwall (1882–1885) Launceston (1885–1892)President of the Churchmen's Union (1908–1915)Francis Dyke AclandLiberal1906Richmond (1906–1910) North West Cornwall (1910–1922)

Tiverton (1923–1924)

North Cornwall (1932–1939)Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1915–1916)

Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1915)

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1911–1915)

Financial Secretary to the War Office (1908–1910, 1911)Sir Richard Acland Liberal1935Barnstaple (1935–1942)Chairman of the Common Wealth Party (1942–1943, 1944–1945)Common WealthBarnstaple (1942–1945)LabourGravesend (1947–1955)Sir Thomas Dyke AclandTory1812Devon (1812–1818, 1820–1831)ConservativeNorth Devon (1837–1857)Sir Thomas Dyke AclandConservative1837West Somerset (1837–1847)LiberalDevonshire North (1865–1885) Wellington (1885–1886)Sir Gilbert Acland-TroyteConservative1924Tiverton (1924–1945)William a'CourtTory1806Heytesbury (1806–1807)Also Member of Parliament of Great BritainCharles Ashe A'Court-RepingtonTory1820 Heytesbury (1820–1820)Edward Henry A'Court-RepingtonTory1820 Heytesbury (1820–1832)ConservativeTamworth (1837–1847)William ActonIrish Conservative1841Wicklow (1841–1848)Sir Robert AdairWhig1801Appleby (1801–1802) Camelford (1802–1812)British Ambassador to Belgium (1831–1835) British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1808–1809)

British Minister to Austria (1806–1807)

Also a Member of the Parliament of Great BritainSir Charles AdamIndependent1831Kinross-shire (1831–1832) Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (1832–1841)Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire (1839–1853) First Naval Lord (1834, 1841–1844, 1846–1847)WhigShockat AdamIndependent2024Leicester South (2024–present)William AdamIndependent1806Kincardineshire (1806–1812)Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall (1806–1815) Attorney-General of the Duchy of Cornwall (1805–1816)

Solicitor-General of the Duchy of Cornwall (1802–1805)

Treasurer of the Ordnance (1780–1782, 1783)

Also Member of the Parliament of Great BritainWilliam Augustus AdamConservative1910Woolwich (1910–1910)Sir William Patrick AdamLiberal1859Clackmannan and Kinross (1859–1880)Governor of Madras (1880–1881) Paymaster General (1873–1874)

First Commissioner of Works (1873–1874, 1880)

Lord of the Treasury (1865–1866, 1868–1873)Allen AdamsLabour1979Paisley (1979–1983) Paisley North (1983–1990)Charles AdamsTory1801Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (1801–1812)David AdamsLabour1922Newcastle-upon-Tyne West (1922–1923) Consett (1935–1943)Gerry AdamsSinn Féin1983Belfast West (1983–1992, 1997–2011)President of Sinn Féin in the Dáil Éireann (2011–2018) President of Sinn Féin (1983–2018)

Vice President of Sinn Féin (1978–1983)

Also Member of the Northern Ireland Forum, Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) and the Dáil ÉireannIrene Adams Labour1990Paisley North (1990–2005)Later ennobled Baroness Adams of CraigieleaJames AdamsIndependent1801Bramber (1801–1802) Harwich (1803–1806, 1807)Also a Member of the Parliament of Great BritainRichard AdamsLabour1945Balham and Tooting (1945–1950) Wandsworth Central (1950–1955)Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (1949–1951)Vyvyan AdamsConservative1931Leeds West (1931–1945)William AdamsIndependent1801Plympton Erle (1801–1801)Died in office Also a Member of the Parliament of Great BritainToryTotnes (1801–1811)William Thomas AdamsLabour Co-operative1945Hammersmith South (1945–1949)Died in officeJennie AdamsonLabour1938Dartford (1938–1945) Bexley (1945–1946)Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions (1945–1946) Chair of the Labour Party (1935–1936)William AdamsonLabour1910West Fife (1910–1931)Secretary for Scotland (1924, 1929–1931) Leader of the Labour Party (1917–1921)

Treasurer of the Scottish Miners' Federation (1914–1922)

General Secretary of the Fife and Kinross Miners' Association (1908–1917)William Murdoch AdamsonLabour1922Cannock (1922–1931, 1935–1945)Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (1941–1944)Henry AddingtonTory1801Devizes (1801–1805)Home Secretary (1812–1822) Lord Privy Seal (1806)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801–1804)

First Lord of the Treasury (1801–1804)

Chancellor of the Exchequer (1801–1804)

Leader of the House of Commons (1801)

Lord President of the Council (1805, 1806–1807, 1812)

Speaker of the House of Commons (1789–1801)

Also Member of the Parliament of Great Britain

Later ennobled as Viscount SidmouthJohn Hiley AddingtonTory1801Wendover (1801–1802) Bossiney (1802–1803)

Harwich (1803–1818)Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1812–1818) Paymaster of the Forces (1803–1804)

Secretary to the Treasury (1801–1802)

Also Member of the Parliament of Great BritainWilliam AddingtonTory1863Devizes (1863–1864)Later ennobled as Viscount SidmouthChristopher AddisonLiberal1910Hoxton (1910–1918)Lord President of the Council (1951) Paymaster General (1948–1949)

Lord Privy Seal (1947–1951)

Leader of the House of Lords (1945–1951)

Dominion Affairs Secretary (1945–1947)

Minister of Agriculture (1930–1931)

Minister without portfolio (1921)

Later ennobled as Baron Addison and Viscount AddisonCoalition LiberalShoreditch (1918–1922)LabourSwindon (1929–1931, 1934–1935)Henry John AdeaneWhig1830Cambridgeshire (1830–1832)Sir Ryland AdkinsLiberal1906Middleton (1906–1918) Middleton and Prestwich (1918–1923)Robert AdleyConservative1970Bristol North East (1970–1974)

Christchurch and Lymington (1974–1983)

Christchurch

(1983–1993)Chair of the Transport Select Committee (1992–1993)Bim AfolamiConservative2017Hitchin and Harpenden (2017–2024)Adam AfriyieConservative2005Windsor (2005–2024)Sir Emanuel Felix AgarTory1807Sudbury (1807–1812)George Agar-EllisIndependent1818Heytesbury (1818–1820)First Commissioner of Woods and Forests (1830–1831) Later ennobled as Baron DoverWhigSeaford (1820–1826) Ludgershall (1826–1830) Okehampton (1830–1831)Thomas Agar-RobartesWhig1847Cornwall East (1847–1859)Later ennobled as Baron RobartesLiberalCornwall East (1859–1868)Thomas Agar-Robartes,Liberal1880Cornwall East (1880–1882)Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (1906–1915) Later ennobled as Baron Robartes and Viscount ClifdenThomas Agar-RobartesLiberal1906Bodmin (1906–1906) St Austell (1908–1915)Died in officeSir James Agg-GardnerConservative1874Cheltenham ( 1874–1880, 1885–1895, 1900–1906, 1911–1928)Died in officeSir Andrew AgnewWhig1830Wigtownshire (1830–1837)Sir Andrew AgnewWhig1856Wigtownshire (1856–1868)LiberalWigtownshire (1859–1868)Sir Andrew AgnewLiberal Unionist1900Edinburgh South (1900–1906)Sir George AgnewLiberal1906Salford West (1906–1918)Sir Peter AgnewConservative1931Camborne (1931–1950) South Worcestershire (1955–1966) Sir William AgnewLiberal1880South East Lancashire (1880–1885) Stretford (1885–1886)Imran Ahmad KhanConservative2019Wakefield (2019–2022)Appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds (2022)Zubir AhmedLabour2024Glasgow South West (2024–present)Tasmina Ahmed-SheikhSNP2015Ochil and South Perthshire (2015–2017)SNP Spokesperson for International Trade (2015–2017)Nick AingerLabour1992Pembrokeshire (1992–1997) Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (1997–2010)Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (2001–2005)Sir Robert AinslieIndependent1801Milborne Port (1801–1802)British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1775–1793) Also Member of the Parliament of Great BritainRobert Sharpe AinslieIndependent1802Mitchell (1802–1806)William AinsleyLabour1955North West Durham (1955–1964)Bob Ainsworth Labour1992Coventry North East (1992–2015)Shadow Defence Secretary (2010) Defence Secretary (2009–2010)

Minister for the Armed Forces (2007–2009)

Government Deputy Chief Whip (2003–2007)

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (1997–2001)Peter AinsworthConservative1992East Surrey (1992–2010)Shadow Environment Secretary (2001–2002, 2005–2009)

Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary (1998–2001) Peter AinsworthWhig1835Bolton (1835–1847)Sir John AirdConservative1887Paddington North (1887–1906)Mayor of Paddington (1900–02)Craigie AitchisonLabour1929Kilmarnock (1929–1931)Lord Justice Clerk (1933–1941) Lord Advocate (1929–1933)National LabourKilmarnock (1931–1933)Jonathan AitkenConservative1974Thanet East (1974–1983) South Thanet (1983–1997)Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1994–1995) Minister for Defence Procurement (1992–1994)Sir Max AitkenConservative1910Ashton-under-Lyne (1910–1916)Lord Privy Seal (1943–1945) Minister of War Production (1942)

Minister of Supply (1941–1942)

Minister of Aircraft Production (1940–1941)

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1918)

Minister of Information (1918)

Later ennobled as Baron BeaverbrookSir Max AitkenConservative1945Holborn (1945–1950)Later ennobled as Baron BeaverbrookNickie AikenConservative2019Cities of London and Westminster (2019–2024)Leader of Westminster City Council (2017–2020)Sir William AitkenConservative1950Bury St Edmunds (1950–1964)Luke AkehurstLabour2024North Durham (2024–present)Aretas Akers-DouglasConservative1880East Kent (1880–1885)