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.

Assassination of Spencer Perceval: in 1812, Perceval is the only British prime minister to be assassinated

Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to be assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a merchant who blamed the government for his debt. From 1882 to 1990, six MPs were assassinated by militant Irish republicans. The murder of Jo Cox on 16 June 2016 was committed by a white supremacist. She was the first female or Labour MP to be 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; stabbed to death 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)		Former distinguished British Army field marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War I and advisor to the government of Northern Ireland. Shot outside his home in Eaton Square, London.
30 March 1979	Airey Neave[4]	Conservative	Abingdon	Members of the Irish National Liberation Army		The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; 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		Shot at a constituents' surgery in Finaghy, Belfast.
12 October 1984	Sir Anthony Berry[6]	Conservative	Enfield Southgate	Members of the Provisional IRA		Killed in the bombing of the Grand Brighton Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference.
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

• Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

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. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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.