List of serving British MPs who were assassinated

This is a list of serving Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who were assassinated.

Date Victim Party Constituency Assassin(s) Assassin's cause Notes
11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval[1] Tory Northampton John Bellingham Personal debt The serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; the only British prime minister to be assassinated, shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons.
6 May 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish[2] Liberal Northern West Riding of Yorkshire James Carey and others (members of the Irish National Invincibles) Irish republicanism The serving Chief Secretary for Ireland; died in the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
22 June 1922 Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Bt[3] Ulster Unionist North Down Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan
(members of the Irish Republican Army)		 Killed outside his home in Eaton Square, London.
30 March 1979 Airey Neave[4] Conservative Abingdon Members of the Irish National Liberation Army Killed in a car bombing outside the Palace of Westminster.
14 November 1981 Rev. Robert Bradford[5] Ulster Unionist Belfast South Members of the Provisional IRA Murdered during a speech at Finaghy in Belfast.
12 October 1984 Sir Anthony Berry[6] Conservative Enfield Southgate Members of the Provisional IRA Killed in the Brighton hotel bombing.
30 July 1990 Ian Gow[7] Conservative Eastbourne Members of the Provisional IRA Killed by a car bomb near his home in East Sussex.
16 June 2016 Jo Cox[8] Labour Batley and Spen Thomas Mair Neo-Nazi white supremacism[9] Shot and stabbed before a constituents' surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dunton, Mark (11 May 2012). "The assassination of Spencer Perceval | The National Archives blog". The National Archives blog. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "The Invincibles and the Phoenix Park Killings | Irish History Online". Irish History Online. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier — Oxford Scholarship". doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239672.001.0001/acprof-9780199239672.
  4. ↑ Hoggart, Simon (31 March 2014). "From the archive, 31 March 1979: Car bomb kills MP Airey Neave". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Borders, William (15 November 1981). "I.R.A. GUNMEN SLAY A PROTESTANT M.P.". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Brighton bombing: 25th anniversary of Sir Anthony Berry's death remembered". Enfield Independent. 12 October 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Eastbourne MP murdered 25 years ago this week". Eastbourne Herald. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Labour MP Jo Cox dies after being shot and stabbed in her constituency near Leeds". Daily Telegraph. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  9. ↑ J. Wilkie (23 November 2016). "Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Wilkie: R -v- Mair (Jo Cox murder)" (PDF). Judiciary. Retrieved 24 November 2016. There is no doubt that this murder was done for the purpose of advancing a political, racial and ideological cause namely that of violent white supremacism and exclusive nationalism most associated with Nazism and its modern forms.
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