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"Francis Macnamara Calcutt (1819 – 16 July 1863) was an Irish Liberal and Independent Irish Party politician. The son of William Calcutt and Dora Macnamara, he was elected as an Independent Irish Member of Parliament (MP) for Clare in 1857 but was defeated at the next election in 1859. He regained the seat as a Liberal MP in a by-election in 1860, and remained in post until his death in 1863. He had married Georgina Martyn in 1842. He was High Sheriff of Clare in 1857. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Francis Calcutt",Q26753889,97,0
"William McCombie MP (1805 – 1 February 1880), was a leading Scottish cattle breeder and agriculturist; he was also known as ""the grazier king"" or the ""king of graziers"". Life Born at Tillyfour Farm near Alford in Aberdeenshire, the home of his father, Charles McCombie, a farming cattle dealer with Highland roots. He was the cousin of William McCombie of Cairnballoch (1809-1870), the founder editor of the radical Aberdeen Free Press . He is said to be descended from Daniel Makomby also known as Makomby-More (big Makomby) who died in July 1714. After receiving his education at a local school, he attended Marischal College in Aberdeen but despite his father's reservations, he sought to follow him in an agricultural career. Initially, McCombie's employment was within the extensive family farming business, part of which was transporting cattle to the borders of Scotland and into England for fattening. During the 1820s he rented the arable 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2 ) Tillyfour Farm from his father and began the process of building up his own herd of black polled cattle. The herd already on the farm when he leased it were quality animals and influenced by Lord Panmure, McCombie blended two types of",Q8015344,200,0
"Patrick O'Brien (c.1847 – 12 July 1917) was Irish Nationalist MP in the House Of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented North Monaghan (1886–1892) and Kilkenny City (1895–1917). He was Chief Whip of the Irish Party from 1907 until his death in 1917. Biography The second son of James O’Brien of Tullamore, Co. Offaly, he never married. He trained as a mechanical and marine engineer but subsequently moved to Liverpool where he set up a business as a coal merchant. In his early days he was a Fenian and was imprisoned as such. After moving to England he became active in the Land League and in the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain, and was again imprisoned in his capacity as secretary of the Commercial Branch of the Land League in Liverpool. He became known to Charles Stewart Parnell, who chose him as candidate for North Monaghan at a by-election in February 1886 after Timothy Healy, who had won the seat in 1885, elected to sit for South Londonderry. O’Brien was reluctant to stand but yielded to Parnell's instructions to be in Monaghan the following morning. He",Q7143845,200,0
"John MacGregor (1797–1857) was a Scottish statistician and politician. Early life MacGregor was born at Drynie, near Stornoway, on the Western Isles, Scotland, the eldest son of Janet (née Ross) and David MacGregor. The family emigrated to Canada in 1803, sailing to Pictou, Nova Scotia. In 1806, they moved to Covehead on Prince Edward Island. As a young man MacGregor set up as a merchant in Charlottetown. In 1822, he served in the office of high sheriff; he was dismissed as a result of involvement in the dealings of Charles Douglass Smith. Put on trial at Smith's behest, he became popular and in 1824 a member of the House of Assembly. He left Canada, travelling through North America, collecting statistics. Return to the UK Returning to the UK, MacGregor set up as a commission agent in Liverpool, in 1827. In 1836, MacGregor reported to the Board of Trade on the Zollverein . In 1839 he represented the British government in the negotiations with the Kingdom of Naples for a revision of the commercial treaty of 1816. In 1840 he succeeded James Deacon Hume as one of the joint secretaries of the Board of Trade. A strong free-trader, he prompted Joseph",Q6246095,200,1
"Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers (11 August 1778 – 27 October 1860) was an English nobleman and naval officer, the second son of Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers. Naval career Pierrepont entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and was made lieutenant on 10 March 1797, and on 11 August the same year commander of Kingfisher , a brig mounting 18 six-pounder guns, with a complement of 120 men. In her he captured the Lynx of 10 guns and 70 men, and also: On 15 September 1797 he captured the French privateer lugger Espoir of 2 guns and 39 men. On 8 January 1798, while about 150 nautical miles (280 km; 170 mi) west of the Burlings, he captured the Betsey , a French privateer ship of 16 guns and 118 men. She surrendered, having 9 men killed and wounded, while Kingsfisher had only 1 man wounded. On 26 May 1798 off Vigo, he captured the Spanish privateer lugger Avantivia Ferrolina , mounting one long gun and four swivels, with a crew of 26. He was promoted to post-captain into the 74-gun Spartiate on 24 December 1798, and Kingfisher was taken over by his former first lieutenant, Frederick Maitland.",Q5081658,200,0
"Edward Berkeley Portman, 1st Viscount Portman (9 July 1799 – 19 November 1888) was a British Whig politician. He was an active supporter of the Royal Agricultural Society of England from its commencement in 1838, and served as president in 1846, 1856, and 1862. He was a considerable breeder of Devon cattle and of improved Alderney cows. Background and education Portman was born on 9 July 1799 to Edward Portman, of Bryanston and Orchard Portman in Dorset , and his first wife Lucy, elder daughter of Reverend Thomas Whitby of Cresswell Hall, Staffordshire. Portman was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. At Christ Church, he graduated with first-class honours, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826. Political career In 1823 Portman was elected to Parliament as a Whig for Dorsetshire, a seat he held until 1832, and then represented the newly created constituency of Marylebone from 12 December 1832 to March 1833. On 27 January 1837 Portman was raised to the peerage as Baron Portman of Orchard Portman, and became an active member of the House of Lords. Lord Portman served as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset from 22 May 1839 to June 1864. He was also a councillor and commissioner of the",Q5344887,200,0
"Henry Thomas Hope (30 April 1808 – 4 December 1862) was a British MP and patron of the arts. Biography Henry Thomas Hope was born in London on 30 April 1808, the eldest of the three sons of the connoisseur Thomas Hope (1769–1831) and his wife Louisa de la Poer Beresford (daughter of William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies, younger son of George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford). However, he was estranged from his brothers (including Alexander James Beresford Hope) when he inherited their father's art collections, wealth and property along with those of their uncle Henry Philip Hope (died 1839). Part of Hope's inheritance from his uncle included the Hope Diamond. He entered a political career after studying at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge (1825–29). He was briefly a Groom of the Bedchamber to Kings George IV and William IV between March and November 1830. He also founded the Art Union of London and the Royal Botanic Society, as well as serving as vice-president of the Society of Arts and president of the Surrey Archaeological Society. Displaying his old masters collection to the public at his London house on Duchess Street, a mansion at 116 Piccadilly and at Deepdene",Q15990054,200,1
"Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician. Scientific career Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford from 1851, before becoming a professor of mineralogy, 1856–95. He was Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum from 1857 to 1880. He was made an honorary Fellow of Wadham in 1873. Maskelyne was also a pioneer of photography and an associate of Fox Talbot. The meteoritic mineral maskelynite was named after him. Family Mervyn was the eldest son of Antony Mervin Reeve Story and Margaret Maskelyne, the daughter of the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. The family adopted the name of Maskelyne on Nevil's coming of age as they had inherited that family's estate at Basset Down in Wiltshire. Mervyn married Thereza Mary Dillwyn-Llewelyn (1834 – 21 February 1926) - Welsh astronomer and pioneer in scientific photography - on 29 June 1858. Their daughter Mary married writer and politician Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster on 29 July 1885, and Hugh and Mary's granddaughter Vanda Morton published Nevil's biography in 1987 (see references). Their daughter Thereza was an advocate for domestic science who married physicist Arthur William Rucker in 1892. Political",Q334244,200,1
"Alexander Staveley Hill (21 May 1825 – 25 June 1905) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1868 to 1900, representing Coventry, Staffordshire West and Kingswinford. Biography Hill was born in Wolverhampton, the son of Henry Hill, a banker, and his wife Anne Staveley. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Exeter College, Oxford. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1851 and joined the Oxford circuit, of which he became the leader. He also acquired a large practice at the parliamentary bar, which he had to relinquish upon entering the House of Commons. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1868. Hill represented Coventry from 1868 to 1874, West Staffordshire from 1874 to 1885 and Kingswinford from 1885 to 1900. He also served as Judge Advocate of the Fleet. He lived at Kensington and at Oxley Manor, Bushbury, Staffordshire, where he was a JP and Deputy Lieutenant of the county. In 1880 he and his wife funded a school and chapel at Bushbury. During the years 1881-1884 Hill went on annual visits to western Canada and published an account of his travels, From Home to",Q2833209,200,0
"Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts-Foley of Prestwood House, then in Kingswinford parish (9 December 1828 – 23 April 1894) was a British MP. He was the son of John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley and a descendant of General Thomas Gage and Margaret Kemble, and it is through Kemble that he is a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family from colonial British North America. He represented South Staffordshire in Parliament from 1857–1868. He inherited the Prestwood estate in Kinver (also partly then in Kingswinford parish) from his father in 1861. He was appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1877. His estate by the 1880s generated close to £7000 a year. He married Jane Frances Anne Vivian, the daughter of the first Lord Vivian. Their son Paul Henry Foley (19 March 1857 –21 January 1928) inherited the Stoke Edith estate in Herefordshire on the death in 1900 of his great aunt by marriage Lady Emily Foley, the widow of Edward Thomas Foley. The whole of the Prestwood estate and a substantial portion of the Stoke Edith estate were sold by Paul by auction in 1913 and 1919. Sir John Paul Foley is a grandson of Paul. External links",Q5723097,200,0
"Major General Richard William Howard Howard Vyse (25 July 1784 – 8 June 1853) was a British soldier and Egyptologist. He was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley (from 1807 to 1812) and Honiton (from 1812 to 1818). Family life Richard William Howard Vyse, born on 25 July 1784 at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, was the only son of General Richard Vyse and his wife, Anne, the only surviving daughter and heiress of Field-marshal Sir George Howard. Richard William Howard Vyse assumed the additional name of Howard by royal sign-manual in September 1812 and became Richard William Howard Howard Vyse on inheriting the estates of Boughton and Pitsford in Northamptonshire through his maternal grandmother, Lucy, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739). He married, 13 November 1810 Frances, second daughter of Henry Hesketh of Newton, Cheshire. By her he had eight sons and two daughters; among his children were Lt Frederick Howard Vyse RN and Windsor MP Richard Howard-Vyse. Vyse died at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, on 8 June 1853. His will was proved on 13 August 1853 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Military career Vyse joined the British Army in 1800, being commissioned as a cornet in",Q128554,200,1
"Sir William Heathcote, 5th Baronet , PC (17 May 1801 – 17 August 1881), was a British landowner and Conservative politician. Background and education Heathcote was the son of Reverend William Heathcote, second son of Sir William Heathcote, 3rd Baronet. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Lovelace Bigg-Wither. He was educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford. In 1825 he succeeded his uncle as fifth Baronet of Hursley as well as to the family seat of Hursley House, Hursley, Hampshire. Political career Heathcote entered Parliament as one of two representatives (MPs) for Hampshire in 1826, a seat he held until 1831, and in the previous year described by commentators as among those voting with the group known as Ultra-Tories. He was re-elected next as MP for Hampshire North between 1837 and 1849 and for Oxford University between 1854 and 1868. He never held ministerial office but was sworn of the Privy Council in 1870. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1832–33. Heathcote was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848. Family Heathcote was twice married. He married firstly the Hon. Caroline Frances, daughter of Charles Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden, in 1825. They had three sons and",Q7529626,200,0
"Arthur Charles Innes (1834–1902), was an Irish Conservative Party Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who represented the constituency of Newry from 1865 to 1868. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with ""N"" (part 2) External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Arthur Charles Innes",Q4798239,52,0
"Sir William Randal Cremer (18 March 1828 – 22 July 1908) usually known by his middle name ""Randal"", was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903 for his work with the international arbitration movement. Early life Cremer was born to a working-class family in the southern English town of Fareham. His father was a coachman, who abandoned the family soon after Randal Cremer was born. His mother raised him along with his two sisters, ensuring he received an education at a local Methodist school. He augmented his knowledge by attending free lectures, was apprenticed as a builder and became a skilled carpenter. Moving to London 1852, Cremer became active as a union organiser, swiftly becoming a recognized labour leader. Cremer was elected as the Secretary of the International Workingmen's Association in 1865 but resigned two years later in 1867, when the organization decided to make women eligible for membership. Being strongly opposed to women's suffrage, Cremer might have now felt that the organisation was becoming too radical. While heavily involved in campaigning for progressive causes and respected by Karl Marx, Cremer did not",Q189841,200,0
"Ralph Walters ( c. 1800 – 20 April 1865) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament. After failing to be elected as an Independent Liberal candidate at Gateshead in 1852, Walters was elected Liberal MP for Beverley at the 1859 general election. However, just four months after his election, he was unseated due to bribery during campaigning. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Ralph Walters",Q26689992,69,0
"Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim (12 June 1826 – 30 September 1886) was a Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, barrister, and author. He was the first man who travelled from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side. Early years Pim was born in Bideford, Devon, England, son of Edward Bedford Pim of Weirhead, Exeter, a British navy officer who died of yellow fever in 1830 off the coast of Africa while engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, and Sophia Soltau Harrison, eldest daughter of John Fairweather Harrison, Esquire of Totnes. Educated at the Royal Naval School, the younger Pim went to India in the British Merchant Navy, and in 1842, upon return to England, was appointed a volunteer in the Royal Navy. Career In 1845, Pim was posted to the survey ship, HMS Herald , under Captain Henry Kellett. For the next six years he took part in surveys in the Falkland Islands, the western coast of South America, and north to British Columbia. During this time he took part in three detours to search for the missing Sir John Franklin expedition. He transferred from Herald to HMS Plover ,",Q4879118,200,1
"John Bond (1 January 1802 – 18 March 1844) was a British politician. He was the Tory Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle, 1823–1828. He resigned from Parliament on 8 February 1828, accepting the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was then the High Sheriff of Dorset 1830 to 1831. References",Q6222418,51,0
"James Dyce Nicol (13 August 1805 – 16 November 1872) was a Scottish businessman, and then a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1872. Nicol was the son of W. Nicol M.D. of Stonehaven and his wife Margaret Dyce daughter of J. Dyce of Aberdeen. He was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was a partner in the firm of Messrs. W. Nichol and Co. of Bombay, where he lived for many years until he retired in 1844, and then a director of the Borneo Company Limited from its inception in 1856 until 1869. Additionally, he was a deputy lieutenant and J.P. for Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. At the 1865 general election Nicol was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kincardineshire. He held the seat until his death at the age of 67 in 1872. Nicol married Sarah Loyd, daughter of Edward Loyd, banker of London and Manchester in 1844. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Nicol",Q6132998,177,1
"Thomas Charles Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore (27 March 1772 – 18 January 1835), styled Viscount Milsington from 1785 until 1823, was a British landowner and politician. Early life Lord Portmore was the son of William Colyear, 3rd Earl of Portmore and Lady Mary Leslie (1753–1799), second daughter of the 10th Earl of Rothes. Career Lord Milsington was an English amateur cricketer who made three known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1792 to 1793. He was mainly associated with Hampshire and was an early member of Marylebone Cricket Club. Political career Lord Portmore was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Boston in Lincolnshire from 1796 to 1802. Personal life He was married twice; in 1793 he married Lady Mary Elizabeth Bertie (d. 1797), daughter of Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, by whom he had a son: Hon. Brownlow Charles Colyear, inherited the personal property of the Duke of Ancaster on his death in 1809, but died in Rome in 1819 due to injuries sustained in a fight with bandits. In 1828 Lord Portmore married Frances Murrells. His titles became extinct on his death on 18 January 1835. The estates passed to his cousin",Q7617511,200,0
"John Williams (30 October 1766 – after 1810) was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor at the general election in July 1802. However, on 16 February 1804, his election was declared void after an election petition. References",Q6264330,41,0
"Alexander Martin Sullivan (1829 – 17 October 1884) was an Irish Nationalist politician, barrister, and journalist from Bantry, County Cork. Biography Alexander Martin Sullivan, the second son of Daniel Sullivan of Dublin, was born in 1829 (A popular date for Sullivan's birth appears in many histories as 1830, but his grave stone reads 1829) at Bantry, County Cork, the second of six sons. He was educated in the local national school. One of Sullivan's brothers was Timothy Daniel Sullivan, the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1886 to 1888. During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1847, Sullivan was employed as a clerk in connection with the relief works started by the government. Deeply influenced by the distress he then witnessed, he afterwards joined the Confederate Club formed at Bantry in support of the revolutionary movement of the Young Irelanders, and was the organiser of the enthusiastic reception given by the town to William Smith O'Brien in July 1848 during the insurgent leader's tour of the southern counties. Early in 1853, Sullivan went to Dublin to seek employment as an artist. An exhibition of the arts and industries of Ireland was held in Dublin that year, and he was engaged to",Q4719558,200,0
"Sir Frederick William Heygate, 2nd Baronet (1822–1894), of the Heygate Baronets, was an Irish Conservative Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Londonderry from 1865 to 1874. References",Q5498024,32,0
"John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton , PC (18 October 1825 – 25 May 1897), known before 1884 as John George Dodson , was a British Liberal politician. He was Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) between 1865 and 1872 and later held office under William Ewart Gladstone as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, President of the Local Government Board and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1884 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Monk Bretton. Background and education Dodson was the only son of Sir John Dodson, a judge and Dean of the Arches of St George's Hanover Square Church, London. His mother was Frances Priscilla, daughter of George Pearson, MD, FRS. He was educated at Eton (1837–1842), where he won HRH the Prince Consort's Prize for French and Italian in 1842, and came second for French and German in 1841 and 1842, and was later a Fellow (1876–1880). He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 9 June 1843, (BA 1847, MA 1851), got a First, and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1853. His exact contemporaries at Eton included William George Mount and the Earl of",Q338252,200,0
"Peter Esslemont (13 June 1834 – 8 August 1894) was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. Life Esslemont was born in Balnakettle, Udny, Aberdeenshire the son of Peter Esslemont, a farmer, and his wife Ann Connon. He was educated at Public School, Belhelvie. He became head of Esslemont and Macintosh, warehousemen, of Aberdeen and a director of the Scottish Employers Liability Co. He was President of the Chamber of Commerce, a J.P. for Aberdeenshire and author of Scheme for Improvement of Robert Gordon's Hospital .From 1880 until 1883, he was the Lord Provost of Aberdeen In 1884, he was a guest at Haddo House for a dinner hosted by John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in honour of William Ewart Gladstone on his tour of Scotland. Esslemont was first elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire at the 1885 general election. He remained an MP there until he resigned in late 1892 to take up the post of Chairman of the Fisheries Board for Scotland. He lived his final years at 34 Albyn Place in Aberdeen. He died in Aberdeen in 1894 aged 60 and is",Q7173881,200,0
"William Rickford Collett (1810–1882) was a British mine owner and Conservative politician. Collett was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Lincoln at the 1841 general election and held the seat until 1847 when he stood for election but was defeated. Biography Collett was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in 1810. In the 1837 United Kingdom general election, he unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for Boston in Lincolnshire. Between 1841 and 1847, he served as the Member of Parliament for Lincoln. In the late 1840s or early 1850s, Collett moved to New South Wales, becoming a director of the Australian Mutual Mining Association. In 1854, he was appointed the Commissioner for Roads for the colony, undertaking surveying work on the Northern Road between Morpeth and Murrurundi. In March 1864, Collett moved to New Zealand, becoming the Chief Superintendent of Roads and Bridges. In this role, he facilitated the construction of rail south of Pōkeno, connecting the Mangatāwhiri River south to Meremere, and preparing the initial designs of the Panmure Bridge in Auckland. Collett was declared insolvent due to financial difficulties in 1866, due to the foreclosure of a gold mining venture at Denison Town, New South Wales which he had financed.",Q21557349,200,0
"Charles William Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon (26 January 1855 – 6 April 1919) was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892, speaking once, in 1889. Mills was the eldest son of Charles Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon and Lady Louisa Isabella (d.1918), daughter of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood. He was a lieutenant in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry and a partner in the banking firm of Glyn, Mills & Co. In the 1885 general election, Mills was elected as member of parliament (MP) for the inceptive safe seat of Sevenoaks in which he owned The Wildernesse, setting up community allotments and an orphanage there. He stood down from the Commons at the 1892 general election. In 1898 he inherited the title Baron Hillingdon and Hillingdon Court outright. In the same year Hillingdon commissioned Edwin Lutyens, who was then working locally, to design Overstrand Hall. Its work began in 1899 and it was completed by 1901. Nikolaus Pevsner considered it one of Lutyens' most remarkable buildings, but other critics of the day thought it ""lacked the picturesqueness of his best works"". Lord Hillingdon was elected a Fellow of the",Q5080955,200,0
"James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres , KT, FRS, FRAS (28 July 1847 – 31 January 1913) was a British astronomer, politician, ornithologist, bibliophile and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878. He was a prominent Freemason, having been initiated into Isaac Newton University Lodge at the University of Cambridge in 1866. Early life The future Earl was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France on 28 July 1847, the only son of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford and his wife Margaret. He was asthmatic and spent considerable periods at sea studying the more portable sections of the family library which had been established by his father. Astronomy Crawford was interested in astronomy from an early age. Along with his father, he built up a private observatory at Dun Echt, Aberdeenshire. He employed David Gill to equip the observatory, using the best available technology. Among his achievements, Gill later made the first photograph of the Great Comet of 1882, pioneering astrophotography and the mapping of the heavens. Crawford mounted expeditions to Cadiz in 1870, to observe the eclipse of the sun; India in 1871, to",Q336404,200,1
"Sir George Richard Philips, 2nd Baronet (23 December 1789 – 22 February 1883) was a British Whig politician. Early life Philips was born on 23 December 1789. He was the eldest son of Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet of Sedgley, near Manchester and Weston House, near Chipping Norton, Warwickshire. He was educated at Eton College from 1805 to 1808, and Trinity College, Cambridge in 1808. Career Philips was returned, like his father, on the 12th Duke of Norfolk's interest in 1818. Likewise, he signed the requisition to Tierney to lead and as regularly voted with opposition. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham from 1818 to 1820 (while below the age of 21). He is not known to have spoken in the House before 1820. He was Member for Steyning from 1820 to 1824, for Kidderminster from 1835 to 1837, and for Poole from 1837 to 1852. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet on 3 October 1847. He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire from 1859 to 1860. Personal life In November 1819, he married the Hon. Sarah Georgina Cavendish, the daughter of Richard Cavendish, 2nd Baron Waterpark. They had two daughters: Juliana Cavendish Philips, who married Adam Haldane-Duncan,",Q7526908,200,0
"Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (21 February 1783 – 3 February 1847) was a politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire and then as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (later called Tasmania). Biography Eardley-Wilmot was the son of John Eardley Wilmot (1748–1815), barrister, and grandson of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He was educated at Harrow School, called to the bar in 1806, appointed High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1818 or 1819 and created a baronet in 1821 and in 1822 published An Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries . This was followed in 1827 by A Letter to the Magistrates of England on the Increase of Crime , by Sir Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Bart. F.R.S., F.L.S. and F.S.A. He was a member of the House of Commons, representing North Warwickshire from 1832 until March 1843. In 1840 he attended an international meeting on 12 June 1840 on anti-slavery. A large painting in the National Portrait Gallery records that event and Eardley-Wilmot is shown with Dr Stephen Lushington, a judge, behind the main speaker. Eardley-Wilmot was appointed lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land, and arrived at Hobart on 17 August",Q1699911,200,1
"General Thomas Wood FRS (1804 – 23 October 1872) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1847. Early life Wood was born the son of Thomas Wood MP for Breconshire and Lady Caroline Stewart. His younger brother, Sir Charles Alexander Wood, married Sophia Ann Brownrigg (a daughter of John Studholme Brownrigg, a prominent merchant and MP for Boston). His paternal grandparents were Thomas Wood (eldest son of Thomas Wood, MP for Middlesex) and Mary Williams (daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Williams, 5th Baronet). His maternal grandparents were Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry and Frances Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (daughter of the Whig politician Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden). He was educated at Harrow School. He lived at Littleton, Middlesex, and at Gwernyfed Park, Breconshire, Wales. Career He became an officer in the Grenadier Guards. He commanded the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the early stages of the Crimean War (1853–56) and reached the rank of General. In 1837 he was elected Member of Parliament for Middlesex. He held the seat until 1847. Also in 1841 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Personal life",Q7795283,200,1
"Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet , (6 January 1860 – 15 December 1922), known as Sir Cameron Gull , was a barrister and Liberal Unionist politician in England, who served for five years as a member of parliament (MP). Early life Gull was born on 6 January 1860, the third child of the leading 19th century physician Sir William Withey Gull and his wife Susan Gull. His elder siblings were Caroline Cameron Gull (born 1851) and Cameron Gull (born 1858, died in infancy). At the time of his birth, his father had a home-based practice at 8 Finsbury Square, London. A year later, the family moved to a new home at 74 Brook Street, in London's Mayfair district. William was educated at Eton College and later studied law at Christ Church, Oxford, winning the Vinerian Scholarship in 1883. When his father died in 1890, Gull and his family lived at Gloucester Street, off Portman Square. William Gull was named as one of the executors of his father's will. He inherited the sum of £40,000 and all his father's real estate, which included the house in Mayfair and a house in Scotland. He also inherited his father's title, becoming 2nd",Q7529521,200,1
"William Henry Chicheley Plowden FRS (21 April 1787 – 29 March 1880) was an English politician and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport, Isle of Wight. Plowden was the son of Richard Plowden, and lived at Ewhurst Park, Basingstoke. He was a director of the Honourable East India Company. He was appointed Second Superintendent of British Trade in China by King William IV on 10 December 1833 but in his absence the role passed to John Francis Davis instead. In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his candidature certificate saying that he was ""an active promoter of the Trigonometrical Surveys of India, and other scientific operations carried on by the East India Company; and generally attached to science and anxious to promote its progress"". In 1847 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Newport, Isle of Wight but only held the seat for one term. He was married twice - firstly in 1818 to Katherine Harding, daughter of William Harding of Baraset. After her death in 1827 he was married again in 1830 to Jane Annette Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell. Their son William Chichele Plowden was an administrator in India and also a",Q8016960,200,1
"Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (18 February 1810 – 10 May 1869), was an English art patron, horticulturalist and Whig politician. He is best remembered as one of the chief promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Background and education Dilke was born in London, the son of Charles Wentworth Dilke, proprietor and editor of the Athenaeum , by his wife Maria Dove Walker. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He helped pass the parliamentary Reform Act of 1832, enacted under the Whig administration of Lord Grey. He studied law, and in 1834 took his degree of LL.B., but did not practise. Public life Dilke assisted his father in his literary work, and was for some years chairman of the council of the Society of Arts, besides taking a prominent part in the affairs of the Royal Horticultural Society and other bodies. In 1841 he co-founded The Gardeners' Chronicle alongside Joseph Paxton, John Lindley and William Bradbury. He was one of the most zealous promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (of which Paxton was again an integral part), and a member of the executive committee. At the close of the exhibition, he was honoured",Q338188,200,0
"Arthur Loftus Tottenham (5 April 1838 – 4 December 1887) was a landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1887. Biography Tottenham was the eldest son of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham of Glenfarne Hall, [Glenfarne, Co Leitrim], and his wife Anna Maria Hopkins, daughter of Sir Francis Hopkins. He was educated at Eton and was a captain in the Rifle Brigade. He owned Glenfarne Hall and estate at Enniskillen, the 4th largest estate in Britain and Ireland, which amounted to over 14,000 acres (57 km 2 ). He became J. P. for the counties of Leitrim, Cavan, and Fermanagh, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Leitrim. He became High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1866. In 1876 Tottenham stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Leitrim but was elected Member of Parliament for Leitrim in 1880. He held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 when he was elected MP for Winchester. He held the seat until his death at the age of 49. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove. Tottenham married Sarah Ann Gore in 1859. Major Arthur Gore Loftus Tottenham (1874–1940) and Herbert Ponsonby Loftus Tottenham (1871–1956) were among their children.",Q4799548,200,0
"William Crawford (1833 – 1 July 1890) was an English miner, trade unionist, and a Liberal politician. Crawford was born at Cullercoats Northumberland and worked in Hartley Coal Mines from the age of 10. In 1862 he actively opposed the attempt of the Northumberland mine owners to impose the system of yearly hiring. He became Secretary of the Durham Miners' Association in 1863, and spoke frequently at the Durham Miner's Gala He was briefly secretary of the breakaway Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association. In 1885 Crawford was elected Member of Parliament for Mid Durham and held the seat until his death aged 57. From 1889 to 1890 he was a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers. Crawford was a chief promoter of the College of the Venerable Bede, Durham and acted as its treasurer until his death. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Crawford",Q8007272,149,0
"Humphrey Sibthorp (3 October 1744 – 25 April 1815) was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1777 and 1806. Sibthorp was the eldest surviving son of the botanist Humphry Sibthorp and his first wife Sarah Waldo, daughter of Isaac Waldo of Streatham, Surrey. He was educated at Harrow School in 1755 and Westminster School in 1756. In 1758 he matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 24 May and was awarded BA in 1762 and MA in 1766. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1766 and was called to the bar in 1770. At the 1774 general election, Sibthorp stood for Parliament at Lincoln and Newark, and was bottom of the poll in both constituencies. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston at a by-election on 3 May 1777, after the death of Charles Amcotts MP. He was re-elected in 1780, but was defeated at the 1784 general election. Sibthorp was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln at a by-election on 9 April 1800, after the death of George Rawdon MP. He was re-elected in 1802, but declined to stand 1806 general election, because of",Q16741847,200,1
"Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896), was a British peer and Liberal politician. Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, the third son of the third Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, only child and heiress of the fifth Earl of Shaftesbury. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. On 9 August 1838, he married his cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and they had 10 children: Alice Barbara Maria (1840–1846) Emily Priscilla Maria (1841–1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy William Ashley Webb (1843–1918) George (1844–1845) Maurice John George (1846–1945), married Hon. Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle) Mary Alice (1849–?) Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith Helen Geraldine (1852–1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton Diana Isabel Maria (1855–?) References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Ponsonby",Q5081706,167,0
"Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet , FRS, FSA (December 1749 – 10 January 1815) was a British colonial governor, politician and owner of sugar plantations which, in 1788, included 896 enslaved Africans. He was the governor of Tobago from 1807 – January 1815, and Member of Parliament for St Mawes, 19 June 1784 – 3 November 1806, and Buckingham, 5 November 1806 – 23 March 1807. Early years Young was born in Charlton, then in Kent, now Greater London, in December 1749, the eldest son of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet (1724/5–1788), governor of Dominica, and his second wife, Elizabeth (1729–1801), the daughter of the mathematician Brook Taylor. His siblings included Sarah Elizabeth, Portia, Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, John, and Olivia. As a child, he and ten other family members were featured in the oil on canvas painting, The Family of Sir William Young, Baronet (ca.1766) by Johan Zoffany. He enrolled at Clare College, Cambridge in 1767 but transferred to University College, Oxford, on 26 November 1768. After graduating he travelled France and Italy and documented his travels. In 1777, he published The spirit of Athens , an acclaimed insight into the political and philosophical history of Greece. Career In 1782,",Q7529844,200,1
"Charles James Murray (29 November 1851 – 25 September 1929) was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat. Early life He was the son of The Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray and his American born wife Elizabeth ""Elise"" Wadsworth. His parents met while his father was spending several years travelling across Europe and America between 1835 and 1838. His father returned to England in 1838 where his father obtained the position of Master of the Household in the Court of the young Queen Victoria. After being removed from the positions in the Household reforms initiated by Albert, Prince Consort, his father became a diplomat in Naples followed by consul-general in Egypt in 1846. His parents married in December 1850 during one of his father's visits to Scotland. While in Cairo, his mother died after giving birth to him. His father later served as Minister to the Swiss Confederation, and Envoy to the Shah of Persia and the King of Saxony. In 1862, his father remarried to his first cousin once removed Hon. Edith Susan Esther Fitzpatrick (a daughter of John Fitzpatrick, 1st Baron Castletown). From this marriage, Charles had a much younger half-brother, Cecil Henry Alexander Murray. His paternal grandparents",Q5079454,200,0
"Henry John Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie (25 June 1827 – 28 October 1921), styled Lord Moreton between 1840 and 1853, was a British courtier and Liberal Party politician. He notably served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1859 to 1866, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries from 1888 to 1908. Background and education Moreton was born on 25 June 1827 at Sherborne, Dorset, the eldest son of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie, and his wife, Elizabeth Dutton, daughter of John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne. He was educated at Eton. Political career In 1852, Moreton entered Parliament as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud. The following year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. In 1859 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Lord Palmerston, a post he held until the government fell in 1866, the last year under the premiership of Lord Russell. Other honours Apart from his political career, Lord Ducie was Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire between 1857 and 1911 and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and member of the Council of the Prince of Wales",Q5727493,200,0
"Peter Blackburn (1811 – 20 May 1870) was a British Conservative Party politician. Family and early life Blackburn was the son of Jamaica proprietor John Blackburn of Killearn and Rebecca Louise Gillies, and the brother of Scottish Law Lord Colin Blackburn and mathematician Hugh Blackburn. In 1835, he married Jean Wedderburn, daughter of James Wedderburn and Isabella Clerk, and they had at least eight sons and five daughters, including: John (born 1843); James (1845–1892); Peter (born 1847); Andrew Cathcart (1851–1887); Colin George (1853–1888); Hugh (born 1855); Adam Gillies (1858–1891); Arthur Octavius (1862–1889); Isabella; Rebecca Marion (died 1914); Jean; Helen Agnes; and Mary. Blackburn started his career in the military as a cornet in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards in 1830, before retiring as a lieutenant in 1837. He then became a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Stirlingshire. In 1846, he became chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Political career A Liberal-Conservative, Blackburn was elected MP for Stirlingshire at a by-election in 1855, caused by the death of William Forbes. In 1859, he was appointed a junior Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, although with little enthusiasm. In correspondence between the-then Chancellor of the Exchequer Benjamin Disraeli",Q26634508,200,0
"John Passmore Edwards (24 March 1823 – 22 April 1911) was a British journalist, newspaper owner and philanthropist, and briefly a Member of Parliament. Early life According to his autobiography Passmore Edwards was born in Blackwater, a small village between Redruth and Truro in Cornwall, England. He had three brothers, William, Richard and James. His father was a Cornishman, a carpenter by trade. His mother's maiden name was Passmore, and she had been born in Newton Abbot, Devon. He reported that in his youth there were few books available to him, and they were mostly theological in nature. At age twelve, the first book he managed to purchase for himself was Newton's Opticks , and he declared that he ""was just as wise at the end as I was at the beginning of reading it"". Journalist He became the Manchester representative of the London Sentinel , a weekly newspaper opposed to the Corn Law, in 1844 but the title failed within a year and by 1845 he settled in London, supporting himself by freelance writing and lecturing in the cause of social reform. His initial publishing ventures, including the widely read Public Good , were failures, bringing him to bankruptcy",Q6252021,200,0
"Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde , (22 February 1853 – 2 October 1928) was a Scottish politician, judge, and georgist land value tax activist. Life He was the son of John Ure, lord provost of Glasgow, and his wife Isabella. He studied law at the University of Glasgow he was admitted to membership of the Faculty of Advocates in 1878. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire from 1895 to 1913. He became a queen's counsel in 1897. He provided as solicitor general for Scotland from December 1905 to 1909, and as Lord Advocate from February 1909 to 1913. He was an enthusiastic supporter of David Lloyd George's 1909–10 budget. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1909. In 1909, he conducted the prosecution of Oscar Slater for murder; the conviction was later quashed on appeal. He lived at 31 Heriot Row, a large Georgian townhouse, in Edinburgh's Second New Town. On leaving Parliament, he was raised to the bench as Lord Strathclyde and appointed Lord Justice General, a post he held until 1920. He was raised to the Peerage as Baron Strathclyde , of Sandyford in the County of Lanark, in 1914. In 1917, he was",Q4720275,200,0
"Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, 2nd Baronet (17 March 1809 – 29 November 1887) was a British Conservative politician. Life He was the son of his namesake John Duckworth and Susanna Catherine Buller. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1826, graduating B.A. in 1829. He inherited the baronetcy of Topsham in 1817 on the death of his father. Duckworth was elected Conservative MP for Exeter at a by-election in 1845—caused by the death of William Webb Follett—and held the seat until 1857 when he did not seek re-election at that year's general election. Family Duckworth married Mary Isabella Buller, daughter of John and Harriet Buller, in 1850, and they had three children: Mary Georgiana (born 1852); Evelyn Harriet (born 1857); and, Fanny Catherine (born 1860). References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Duckworht",Q26128936,144,0
"Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry Pringle GCB (21 August 1772 – 23 December 1840) was a British Army officer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for two constituencies in Cornwall. He was born the eldest son of Maj-Gen. Henry Pringle, of Dublin and educated privately and at Trinity College Dublin. He joined the British Army as a cornet and progressed to the rank of Colonel of the 64th Foot in 1816. Further promotion to Lieutenant-General followed before he was transferred as Colonel for life in 1837 to the 45th Regiment of Foot. He was made KCB in 1815 and GCB in 1834. He was MP for St Germans from 1812 to 1818, and then for Liskeard from 1818 to 1832. He died in 1840. He had married Harriet Hester Eliot on 20 May 1806 (the daughter and heiress of Hon. Edward James Eliot) with whom he had a son and 4 daughters. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs External Sources Sir William Henry Pringle's correspondence at the John Rylands Library, Manchester",Q8012125,173,0
"Sir Claud Alexander, 1st Baronet (15 January 1831 – 23 May 1899) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885. Life Alexander was the eldest son of Boyd Alexander and his wife Sophia Elizabeth Hobhouse, daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1849, he joined the Grenadier Guards. He served in the Crimean War including at the Siege of Sevastapol. He was awarded the Crimean Medal and Clasp, the Turkish War Medal and the Order of the Medjidie 5th Class. He reached the rank of Colonel in 1870. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. In 1868 Alexander stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Ayrshire South. At the 1874 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Ayrshire South. He passed the ""Industrial Schools Acts Amendment Act"" in 1880. He held the seat until 1885. He was created a baronet in 1886. Alexander lived at Ballochmyle House, which he extended in 1886. He died at the age of 68. Family Alexander married Eliza Speirs, daughter of Alexander Speirs of Elderslie who was Lord Lieutenant of",Q5128619,200,0
"Charles Campbell Ross (born London 1849; died 9 July 1920, Whitechapel) was a British politician and banker based in Penzance, Cornwall. The grandson of the banker Joseph Carne through his eldest daughter Mary (who married, 9 August 1836, Dr Archibald Campbell Colquhoun Ross, of Lanarkshire), he was educated at Brighton College, he was leading member of the Penzance Borough Council in the 1880s serving as mayor five times in 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881 and 1883. During this period he was also member of parliament for the St Ives constituency (1881–1885) as a member of the Conservative Party. The General Election of 1885 was ""fiercely contested"" and he was defeated by the Liberal candidate, Sir John St Aubyn. His family home and estate in Penzance are now the Morrab Library and Morrab Gardens. He also held the positions of borough magistrate, county magistrate and Hon Secretary of the West Cornwall Infirmary. The Ross bridge in Penzance is named after Charles Ross. Charles Ross was a major partner in the Penzance Bank (otherwise known as Batten, Carne and Carne) which had major branches in Penzance and Devonport. He inherited the position from his grandfather the well known Cornish banker and geologist Joseph",Q5076075,200,1
"Sir John Henry Seale, 1st Baronet (1780–1844) of Mount Boone in the parish of Townstal near Dartmouth in Devon, was a Whig Member of Parliament for Dartmouth in 1838. He was created a baronet on 31 July 1838. He owned substantial lands in Devon, mainly at Townstal and Mount Boone. Together with the Earl of Morley of Saltram House near Plymouth, he built several bridges in Dartmouth, most notably the Dart crossing. Arthur Howe Holdsworth's, the previous Member of Parliament in Dartmouth, influence over the pocket borough of Dartmouth ceased after the 1832 Reform Act and subsequently he was in competition for that parliamentary seat with John Seale, who won the seat. The family descended from John Seale (born c. 1512) of St Brelade in Jersey, a descendant of Robert Seale (or Scelle ) a gens de bien of St Brelade 1292. In 1720 the 1st Baronet's grandfather John Seale, purchased the estate of Mount Boone near Dartmouth. The latter's great-grandfather was John Seale, Constable of St Brelade 1644-51, the son of John Seale, Constable of St Brelade 1615-21. Marriage and children In 1804 he married Paulina Elizabeth Jodrell, daughter of the physician Sir Paul Jodrell (1746–1803), M.D., by whom",Q21548658,200,1
"Jasper Wilson Johns (1824 – 26 July 1891) was a civil engineer, merchant, railway promoter and Liberal Party politician. Johns was the son of Thomas Evans Johns of Cardiganshire and his wife Elizabeth Tudor Avis. Johns became a civil engineer and practiced until 1854. He was then involved in William Bird & Co. of London, a firm of iron merchants. He was an active promoter of railways in Wales of which he was chairman or deputy chairman for many years until they were taken over by the London and North Western Railway. He was one of the earliest Volunteer officers as captain commanding the 3rd Montgomery Rifle Volunteers. He was a J. P. for Merioneth and Montgomery, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Merioneth. Johns stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at Northallerton in 1865 and 1868. At the 1885 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton. but was defeated at the 1886 general election and did not stand for Parliament again. Johns married Emily Theresa Bird, in 1855. His daughter Mabel married Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, jurist and writer. He died in 1891, at the age of 67 and is buried in Brookwood Cemetery in a grave",Q6164079,200,0
"George Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham , CB, DL (14 December 1852 – 1 February 1931), known as Denison Faber , was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Background and early life Faber was the second surviving son of Charles Wilson Faber (1813–1878) a director of the Great Northern Railway and the nephew of Lord Grimthorpe. He was the brother of Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber, and of Mrs Edward Kennard (1850–1936), a novelist. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he graduated BA, and in 1879 was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. From 1887 to 1896 he acted as Registrar of the Privy Council. Political career Faber was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for York in a by-election on 6 February 1900, following the resignation of Lord Charles Beresford. He served until January 1910, when he lost his seat, and was again elected for Clapham from 1910 to 1918. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1905. On 29 June 1918, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wittenham , of Wallingford in the County of Berkshire. Personal life Faber married, in 1895, Hilda Georgina Graham,",Q5539164,200,0
"Charles James Fleming , KC (26 November 1839 – 25 December 1904) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895, but his parliamentary career was cut short when he fell out with the Liberal Party in his constituency. His business ventures failed, and he was made bankrupt. Career Fleming was the oldest son of Lionel Fleming of Manchester and Sale and his wife Anne, the daughter of Edward Rice Haywood from Liverpool. He was educated privately, and then joined the Uncovenanted Civil Service in Bombay, working in the financial department. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1872, and practised on the Northern Circuit, becoming a Queen's Counsel in July 1893. In 1869 he married Georgina Brown, the youngest daughter of James Brown from Eccles. He unsuccessfully contested the borough of Pontefract at the 1886 general election, and at the 1892 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Doncaster division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, defeating the sitting Liberal Unionist MP Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam. In January 1894 the Doncaster Liberal Council decided not to adopt him as their candidate for",Q5079431,200,0
"Thomas Ellis (c. 1774–1832) was a Tory UK Member of Parliament representing Dublin City in 1820–1826. In a by-election on 30 June 1820 Ellis replaced the deceased former Whig MP the Right Honourable Henry Grattan. The Whig candidate defeated in the by-election was the great orators son also called Henry Grattan. Ellis retained the seat until he retired, at the dissolution of Parliament, in 1826. References Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 , edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978) The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs",Q7789328,115,0
"Robert Hurst (1750 – 13 April 1843) was an English Whig politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for boroughs from 1806 to 1829. Political career At the 1802 general election, Hurst was elected to the House of Commons for two constituencies: Shaftesbury and Steyning. The result of the election in Shaftesbury was disputed, but once the dispute had been settled in his favour he chose to represent Shaftesbury, and did not sit for Steyning in the remainder of the Parliament. At the 1806 general election he was returned again for Steyning, and held that seat until the 1812 general election, when he was elected as MP for Horsham, a seat which he held until 1829, when he resigned his seat by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. Family Hurst married in 1784 Maria Smith, daughter of Adam Smith: they had two sons and five daughters. The eldest son, Robert Henry Hurst, represented Horsham as a Radical. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Hurst",Q16741827,166,0
"Captain Lord William Stuart (18 November 1778 – 25 July 1814), was a British naval commander and Tory politician. Early life Stuart was the fifth son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, son of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. His mother was the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter of Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor. He served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of captain. In 1802 he was returned to Parliament for Cardiff, succeeding his elder brother Lord Evelyn Stuart, a seat he held until his death twelve years later. Personal life Stuart married the Hon. Georgiana, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden, in 1806. They had one daughter, Georgiana, who died unmarried in 1833. His wife died in August 1807. Stuart never remarried and died in July 1814, aged only 35. References Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page [usurped] Lundy, Darryl. ""FAQ"". The Peerage. History of the Cardiff constituency at British History Online External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord William Stuart",Q6680033,169,0
"Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (12 June 1772 – 3 April 1848), was a British banker and Member of Parliament. Early life Baring was born on 12 June 1772. A member of the Baring family, he was the eldest son of Harriet (née Herring) Baring and Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, founder of Barings Bank. His grandfather, John (Johann) Baring, had emigrated from Germany and established the family in England. His maternal grandfather was merchant William Herring of Croydon and among his mother's family was her cousin, Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury. Career From 1790 and 1801, he worked with the Honourable East India Company. Thomas became a partner in Baring Brothers & Co. in 1804, remaining until 1809. Upon his father's death in, 1810, he succeeded Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet. After his early career with the bank, Sir Thomas was elected a British Member of Parliament for the constituencies of High Wycombe and Hampshire until 1831. From 1832 to 1833 he was the chairman of the London and South Western Railway. He was president of the London Institution and Director of the British Institution. In June 1841, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Personal life",Q7529038,200,1
"Henry Charles Lacy (1799 – 1869) was a British Whig politician. Lacy became a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodmin at the 1847 general election, but stood down at the next election in 1852. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Henry Lacy",Q26328792,47,0
"John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell (26 August 1798 – 17 May 1879), was an Irish Conservative peer and Member of Parliament. Biography He was the eldest son of John McClintock, an Irish magistrate for County Louth, and formerly Serjeant at Arms in the Irish House of Commons. His mother was Jane, the only daughter of William Bunbury, Esq of Moyle. Jane was sister to Thomas Bunbury, MP for County Carlow. McClintock was appointed High Sheriff of Louth in 1840 and elected Member of Parliament for County Louth in 1857, a seat he held until 1859. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Louth from 1867 until his death in 1879. On 21 December 1868 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Rathdonnell , of Rathdonnell in the County of Donegal, with remainder to the male issue of his deceased younger brother Captain William McClintock-Bunbury. It was to be the second last title granted in the Irish peerage. Lord Rathdonnell was married to Anne Lefroy, sister of Sir John Henry Lefroy, and they lived between Drumcar, County Louth, and their London house at 80 Chester Square. The marriage was childless. Rathdonnell was also an uncle of the",Q6247503,200,0
"Henry Jodrell (bapt. 30 May 1750 – 11 March 1814) was an English barrister and Member of Parliament. He was a younger son of Paul Jodrell of Duffield, Derbyshire, the Solicitor-General to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Elizabeth. Richard Paul Jodrell, (1745 – 1831), classical scholar and playwright, and Sir Paul Jodrell (died 1803), physician to the Nabob of Arcot, were his elder brothers. He was educated at Eton school and Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1773, and inherited Bayfield Hall, near the north Norfolk coast, from his mother. He was Commissioner of Bankrupts 1783-97 and the Recorder of Great Yarmouth 1792–1813. He resigned the recordership in 1813 to avoid having to pass the death sentence on his wife's murderer. He was MP for Great Yarmouth from 1796 to 1802, and MP for Bramber, Sussex from 1802 to 1812. He is buried in Letheringsett with a memorial designed by John Bacon. He married Johanna Elizabeth, daughter of John Weyland of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. They had no children. References",Q5723941,174,1
"Robert Ingham (1793 – 21 October 1875) was a British barrister and politician. The fourth son of the surgeon William Ingham and his wife Jane Walker, of Newcastle upon Tyne, Ingham was educated at Harrow School. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1811. He graduated with a B.A. in 1815 and an M.A. in 1818, and held a fellowship at Oriel from 1816 until 1826. Ingham took to the law and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 16 June 1820, moving to the Inner Temple in 1825. He was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields in the election of 1832, initially as a Tory. One of his strongest supporters in Shields was local heroine Dolly Peel. He continued to represent South Shields until he was defeated by John Twizell Wawn in the election of 1841. He was also appointed recorder of Berwick-upon-Tweed in June 1832. In 1846, he was appointed Attorney-General of Durham. In 1850, he became a bencher of the Inner Temple. When Wawn retired in 1852, Ingham beat Henry Liddell in the 1852 election to regain his seat, this time as a Whig. Ingham resigned his attorney-generalship in 1861, and served as reader of",Q7345792,200,1
Robert Charles Hildyard (1800 – 7 December 1857) was a British Conservative politician. Hildyard was first elected Conservative MP for Whitehaven at the 1847 general election and held the seat until his death in 1857. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Robert Hildyard,Q26288557,47,0
"Charles Tyringham Praed (1833 – 19 October 1895) was a British Conservative Party politician. Davenport was elected MP for St Ives at a by-election in 1874, but was quickly unseated after the election was declared void on petition grounds of ""general treating"". However, he regained the seat at the subsequent by-election in 1875 and remained MP until 1880 when he stepped down. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Praed",Q25893755,73,0
"John Alexander Kinglake (25 June 1802 – 9 July 1870) was an English barrister and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1870. Kinglake was at born at Chilton-on-Polden, the son of Robert Kinglake MD of Taunton and his wife Joanna Apperly, daughter of Anthony Apperly of Herefordshire. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge graduating BA in 1826 and MA in 1830. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1830. In 1844 he was made a Serjeant-at-Law. He was Recorder of Exeter in 1849 and became Recorder of Bristol in 1856. He was a barrister on the western Circuit and was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Somerset. Kinglake stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Wells in July 1852 and in 1855. At the 1857 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Rochester. He held the seat until his death at the age of 68 in 1870. Kinglake married Louisa Rebecca Liddon daughter of John Liddon of Taunton in 1835. Their son Robert Kinglake was a rower in the Boat Race and at Henley Royal Regatta. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John",Q15990106,200,1
"Colonel Henry James Baillie PC (1803 – 16 December 1885), was a British Conservative politician. He served under Lord Derby as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1858 to 1859. Background Baillie was the son of Colonel Hugh Duncan Baillie, son of Evan Baillie, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend Henry Reynett. Peter Baillie and James Evan Baillie were his uncles. He was educated at Eton College. Political career Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second (after d'Orsay declined), when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O'Connell, the son of Daniel O'Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently did not actually occur. In 1840 Baillie was elected Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire, and retained that seat until 1868. In the early 1840s he was associated with the ""Young England"" movement, of which Disraeli was the head. Another member of that group, George Smythe, was Baillie's brother-in-law. He apparently broke with Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws and accepted minor office in Lord Derby's 1852 government as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control. He again held office under Derby as Under-Secretary",Q5717706,200,0
"George Wyndham , PC (29 August 1863 – 8 June 1913) was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls. Background and education Wyndham was the elder son of the Honourable Percy Wyndham, third son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and he was a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. He was the brother of Guy Wyndham and Mary Constance Wyndham. His mother was Madeleine Campbell, sixth daughter of Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, and Pamela, through whom he was the great-grandson of the Irish Republican leader Lord Edward FitzGerald, whom Wyndham greatly resembled physically. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Coldstream Guards in March 1883, serving through the Suakin campaign of 1885. Political career Wyndham started his political career in 1887, when he became private secretary to Arthur Balfour (afterward the Earl of Balfour). In 1889, he was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover, and held the seat until his death. Wyndham launched an Imperialist magazine called The Outlook in February 1898. This may have been supported financially by Cecil Rhodes, with whom he had",Q275465,200,0
"John Dillon (4 September 1851 – 4 August 1927) was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition Dillon was an advocate of Irish nationalism, originally a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, supporting land reform and Irish Home Rule. Early life John Dillon was born in Blackrock, Dublin, a son of the former ""Young Irelander"" John Blake Dillon (1814–1866). Following the premature death of both his parents, he was partly raised by his father's niece, Anne Deane. He was educated at Catholic University School, at Trinity College Dublin and at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He afterwards studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, then ceased active involvement in medicine after he joined Isaac Butt's Home Rule League in 1873, winning notice in 1879 when he attacked Butt's weak parliamentary handling of Irish Home Rule. His family financial means enabled him to turn and devote all his energies to political life. He became a leading land reform agitator as member of the original committee of the Irish National Land League, spearheading the policy",Q3504529,200,1
"Peter La Touche (c. 1775 – 11 February 1830) was a landowner and Irish politician. The La Touche family were Huguenots originally from France and settled in Ireland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes which deprived the French Protestants of all religious and civil liberties, leading to largescale emigration. He was the son of David La Touche MP, of Marlay, County Dublin and educated at Harrow School (1786–1791) and Trinity College, Dublin He succeeded his uncle Peter Latouche, MP, to Bellevue House, County Wicklow in 1828. He became a Member of Parliament for County Leitrim 1802–1806. He married the Hon. Charlotte Maude, daughter of Cornwallis, 1st Viscount Hawarden, with whom he had nine sons and five daughters. He was succeeded in turn by his sons Peter David and William Robert. Peter and his brother John were governors of the Female Orphanage Kirwan House on Dublin's North Circular Road. References ""LATOUCHE, Peter (?1775-1830), of Bellevue, co. Wicklow"". History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 7 December 2012 . Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs ""Edict of Nantes: French history"". Encyclopedia Britannica . Britannica . Retrieved 2 February 2021 .",Q7175325,189,0
"Alan de Tatton Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton (19 March 1845 – 9 September 1920), known as the Honourable Alan Egerton from 1859 to 1907, was a British Conservative politician from the Egerton family. Egerton was a younger son of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton, and his wife Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus. Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton, was his elder brother. He was elected to the House of Commons for Cheshire Mid in 1883, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Knutsford from 1885 to 1906. In 1907 he succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Egerton. The Hon Alan de Tatton Egerton MP was commissioned as a captain in the Paddington Rifles (later 5th Volunteer Battalion, Rifle Brigade) in 1877, and was later major and honorary lieutenant-colonel in the Cheshire imperial Yeomanry. He was the first president of the Institute of Refrigeration, formed in 1899 as the Cold Storage and Ice Association. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the County of Chester 24 December 1901, and Vice-Lieutenant of the county 11 January 1902. Lord Egerton married Anna Louisa, daughter of Simon Watson Taylor, in 1867. He died in September 1920, aged 75,",Q4706577,200,0
"George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS (10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876) was an English geologist and political economist as well as a Member of Parliament and magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, through the influence of Edward Clarke and Adam Sedgwick he became interested in mineralogy and geology. During the winter of 1816–1817 he was at Naples, and was so keenly interested in Vesuvius that he renewed his studies of the volcano in 1818; and in the following year visited Etna and the Lipari Islands. In 1821 he married the daughter and heiress of William Scrope of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, and assumed her name; and he entered the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1833 as MP for Stroud, retaining his seat until 1868. Meanwhile he began to study the volcanic regions of central France in 1821, and visited the Eifel district in 1823. In 1825 he published Considerations on Volcanos , leading to the establishment of a new theory of the Earth, and in the following year was elected FRS. This earlier work was subsequently amplified and issued under the title of Volcanos (1862); an authoritative text-book of which a second edition",Q707126,200,1
"David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist, politician, and member of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. He is recognized as one of the most influential classical economists, alongside figures such as Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill. Ricardo, born in London as the third surviving child of a successful stockbroker and his wife, came from a Sephardic Jewish family of Portuguese origin. At 21, he eloped with a Quaker and converted to Unitarianism, causing estrangement from his family. He made his fortune financing government borrowing and later retired to an estate in Gloucestershire. Ricardo served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire and bought a seat in Parliament as an earnest reformer. He was friends with prominent figures like James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, and Thomas Malthus, engaging in debates over various topics. Ricardo was also a member of The Geological Society, and his youngest sister was an author. As MP for Portarlington, Ricardo advocated for liberal political movements and reforms, including free trade, parliamentary reform, and criminal law reform. He believed free trade increased the well-being of people by making goods more affordable. Ricardo notably opposed the Corn Laws, which he saw",Q160270,200,1
"Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel (2 July 1834 – 4 June 1913), was a British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal politician. He sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894, and was recognised as the leader of the Welsh MPs. He was a benefactor to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and served as its president from 1895 to 1913. Background and education Rendel was born at Plymouth, Devon, the son of the civil engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Jane, daughter of W. J. Harris. He was the brother of civil engineers Alexander Meadows Rendel and Hamilton Owen Rendel, and of naval architect George Wightwick Rendel. Educated at Eton College, Rendel then attended Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1856 with a fourth-class degree in classical studies. He was called to the Bar in 1861, but was mostly involved in engineering, becoming manager of the London branch of the Armstrong gunnery company. Political career Rendel was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and his retirement in March 1894. Although an Englishman and an Anglican, he was popular in his Welsh-speaking constituency, and was nicknamed ""the member for Wales"" because of",Q7627002,200,0
"William Napleton Molesworth-St Aubyn (18 October 1838 – 29 June 1895) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Molesworth-St Aubyn was the son of Rev. Hender Molesworth-St Aubyn of Clowance, Cornwall and his wife Helen Matilda Isabelle Napleton, daughter of Rev. T Napleton of Powderham, Devon. He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and went on the western circuit and the Devon and Exeter sessions. At the 1880 general election Molesworth-St Aubyn was elected Member of Parliament for Helston. He held the seat until the borough was disenfranchised in 1885. At the 1885 general election, he contested the Truro seat, where he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate William Bickford-Smith. Molesworth St Aubyn married Annie Coles, daughter of George Coles of Southsea. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Molesworth-St Aubyn",Q8015709,156,0
"Dr Gavin Brown Clark (1846 – 5 July 1930) was the MP for Caithness from 1885 to 1900. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and King's College London, graduating in medicine. An active campaigner for social reform issues against an official Liberal candidate, he joined the Crofters Party parliamentary group and gave general support to the Liberal Party, while in opposition. He was re-elected as the official Liberal candidate in 1886, 1892 and 1895. Spending the time in opposition he spoke in the Commons in favour of measures to ameliorate poverty. Crofters were hard-bitten in the far north of Scotland by the clearances, unemployment, and low wages. He was the Honorary Secretary of the Transvaal Independence Committee, for which he wrote the pamphlet The Transvaal and Bechuanaland . For the 1900 general election he was replaced as Liberal candidate and defeated. He unsuccessfully stood for the Labour Party in Glasgow Cathcart in the 1918 general election. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Gavin Brown Clark",Q5528088,174,1
"Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (7 May 1784 – 7 April 1808), was a British traveller and politician. Yorke was the eldest son of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres. He was the grandson of Charles Yorke and the nephew of Charles Philip Yorke and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke. He was educated at Harrow School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Master of Arts in 1803. At Cambridge he wrote a translation of Lycophron's poem about Cassandra that was praised highly by Richard Porson. He was commissioned as a captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia (commanded by his father and uncle) on 6 March 1803 when the militia were being embodied on the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens. In 1806 he embarked on a tour of the Russian Empire which he described in detail in letters to his father that were published in The remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston: With a memoir of his life by the Rev. Henry Pepys (London: J. Murray, 1838); they were used by Lydia Davis for her story ""Lord Royston's Tour."" He was returned to parliament for Reigate in 1806,",Q15434000,200,0
"John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson , (13 December 1844 – 13 March 1932) was an Irish politician and judge. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1905 to 1928. Early life and career Atkinson was born at Drogheda, County Louth, the eldest son of Edward Atkinson, a physician, of Glenwilliam Castle, County Limerick and Skea House, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and his wife Rosetta. He was educated at the Belfast Academy and later at Queen's College Galway, which he attended from 1858 to 1865. He won Junior Scholarships in the Science Division of the Faculty of Arts, 1858–9, 1859–60 and 1860–1. He was awarded the B.A. degree in mathematics with first-class honours in 1861, and pursued a varied postgraduate career – from initial study of the sciences (with Senior Scholarships in Mathematics, 1861–2, and Natural Philosophy, 1862–3) he moved into Law, gaining a first-class Diploma in Elementary Law in 1864. A further Senior Scholarship, this time in Law, followed, and he graduated with a first-class LL.B. in 1865. Throughout his university career, he was noted as an orator of distinction, and served as Auditor of the college's Literary and Debating Society for the 1862–63 session. Atkinson was called to the",Q799510,200,1
"Edward Joshua Cooper (May 1798 – 23 April 1863) was an Irish landowner, politician and astronomer from Markree Castle in County Sligo. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1841 and from 1857 to 1859, but is best known for his astronomy, and as the creator of Markree Observatory. His observatory was home to the largest refracting (telescope with a lens) of the 1830s (an almost 14 inch astronomical grade Cauchoix of Paris lens, the largest in the World), and the asteroid 9 Metis was discovered there in the 1840s by his assistant. Several astronomical catalogs were also produced in the 19th century there. Early life and family Cooper was the oldest son of Edward Synge Cooper MP (1762–1830), and his wife Anne Verelst, daughter of Bengal Governor Harry Verelst. He was educated at The Royal School in Armagh, at Eton, and then at Christ Church, Oxford. His first marriage was to Sophia L'Estrange, daughter of Colonel Henry Peisley L'Estrange of Moystown, Cloghan, County Offaly. They had no children, but he had five daughters with his second wife Sarah Frances Wynne, daughter of Owen Wynne MP of Hazelwood House, Sligo. Astronomy Cooper left",Q1292752,200,1
"John Lloyd Gibbons (25 August 1837 – 25 April 1919) was an engineering surveyor, justice of the peace, county councillor for Bilston and a Liberal Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South from 1898 to 1900. Background Gibbons was born on 25 August 1837 to Wolverhampton-born manufacturing chemist Henry Gibbons and his wife Elizabeth ( née Saunders) from Wednesfield, Staffordshire. He married Emma Eliza White of Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1885 in Wolverhampton.; she died in 1896. He remarried in 1898 to Eliza Grey Ballenden of Sedgley, Staffordshire. Politics and public life Gibbons was county magistrate for the Sedgley Petty Sessions Division. He was elected as County Councillor for North Bilston in 1891, the same year that the family took up residence at Ellowes Hall, a stately home located in Sedgley, Staffordshire. He was elected as member of parliament for Wolverhampton South at the 3 February 1898 by-election following the death of Charles Pelham Villiers on 16 January 1898. Personal life Gibbons died on 25 April 1919 and was buried at All Saints Church, Sedgley. His widow sold Ellowes Hall later the same year. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Lloyd Gibbons",Q16043724,196,0
"Louis Hayes Petit (9 November 1774 – 13 November 1849) was an English barrister and politician. Life He was a younger son of the physician John Lewis Petit, who died in 1780, and was educated at Newcombe's School. Prepared for university by Samuel Parlby, he entered Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1796, M.A, in 1799. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1801, and practised as a barrister to 1821. Petit was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1827, through a family connection with Lancelot Shadwell, who managed the constituency for the patron Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence. He support parliamentary reform, and was returned again in 1831. He did not stand the 1832 election for the reformed parliament, having lost Elizabeth Lawrence's support. Petit became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, in 1803, and of the Royal Society in 1807. He was a fellow also of the Linnaean Society, Geological Society and Royal Astronomical Society. His heir was John Louis Petit. He died on the 13th November 1849 and is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. Notes",Q20932072,186,1
"Nathaniel Grace Lambert (1811 – 9 December 1882) was an English mine-owner and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. Lambert was the son of Richard Lambert of Newcastle upon Tyne and his wife Achsah Grace, daughter of Nathaniel Grace. He was educated privately and became a mine-owner. He was captain-commandant of the Taplow Yeomanry Lancers and a J.P. and deputy lieutenant for Buckinghamshire. In 1865 he was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. At the 1868 general election Lambert was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckinghamshire. He held the seat until 1880. Lambert died at the age of 71. Lambert married Mary Ann Richards, daughter of Thomas Wright Richards of Rushden, Northamptonshire, in 1843. Their youngest daughter, Christina, married Lord John Hay in 1876. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Nathaniel Lambert",Q6969721,144,0
"James Finlayson (1823 – 17 February 1903) was a British Liberal Party politician. Finlayson was elected as the member of parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire in the 1885 general election, but did not stand again at the 1886 election. Finlayson died at the age of 80. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Finlayson",Q6133888,57,0
"Hon. William Owen Stanley (13 November 1802 – 24 February 1884) was a British Liberal Party politician. Life Stanley was the son of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, and Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. His elder twin brother was Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley. He became a solicitor. Stanley married Ellin Williams, daughter of Sir John Williams of Bodelwyddan, Flintshire in 1832. He was heir to Penrhos estate in Anglesey where he lived throughout his life. Stanley was a member of parliament (MP) for Anglesey 1837–1847, City of Chester 1850–1857 and Beaumaris 1857–1874. He was also the Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey 2 March 1869 – 24 February 1884, Stanley was a captain and adjutant in the Grenadier Guards. As an antiquarian of wide reputation, he was the author of Anglesey (1871) and contributed many Celtic contributions, especially on Celtic subjects and his excavations at Holyhead and Castell, Anglesey, to Archaeologia Cambrensis . In 1855 he oversaw the building of Holyhead Market Hall, which stands today, albeit as a library and offices. Stanley donated a collection of antiquities from Anglesey to the British Museum in 1870 and 1881. His monument is",Q13132369,200,1
"Sir Alfred Hopkinson (28 June 1851 – 11 November 1939) was an English lawyer, academic and politician who was a member of parliament (MP) for two three-year periods, separated by nearly 30 years. He was the son of John Hopkinson, a mechanical engineer, and among his brothers were John Hopkinson, a physicist and electrical engineer, and Edward Hopkinson, an electrical engineer and MP. He first stood for election to the House of Commons at the 1885 general election, when he was the unsuccessful Liberal Party candidate in Manchester East. He was unsuccessful again as a Liberal Unionist candidate at the 1892 general election, when he stood in Manchester South-West. Hopkinson finally won a seat at the 1895 general election, when he was elected as MP for Cricklade in Wiltshire. He resigned from Parliament in February 1898, by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. Hopkinson was vice-chancellor of the Victoria University from 1901 to 15 July 1903 and then of the Victoria University of Manchester until 1913. In December 1914, he was appointed to the Committee on Alleged German Outrages which, in May 1915, reported on German war crimes against civilians during the invasion of",Q4722882,200,1
"George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle of Castle Howard, (17 September 1773 – 7 October 1848), styled Viscount Morpeth until 1825, was a British statesman. He served as Lord Privy Seal between 1827 and 1828 and in 1834 and was a member of Lord Grey's Whig government as Minister without Portfolio between 1830 and 1834. Early life Carlisle was the eldest son of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle of Castle Howard, and his wife Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, Among his siblings were brothers: Hon. William Howard, Maj. Hon. Frederick Howard, and the Very Rev. Hon. Henry Howard, Dean of Lichfield; and sisters: Lady Isabella Howard (wife of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor), Lady Elizabeth Howard (wife of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland), and Lady Gertrude Howard (wife of William Sloane-Stanley). His paternal grandparents were Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and, his second wife, Hon Isabella Byron (daughter of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and relative of Lord Byron). His mother was daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and his wife Lady Louisa, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Political career Carlisle",Q335600,200,0
"Sir John George Shaw Lefevre KCB (24 January 1797 – 20 August 1879) was a British barrister, Whig politician and civil servant. Career Shaw Lefevre was the son of Charles Shaw Lefevre by his wife Helen, daughter of John Lefevre. Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, was his elder brother. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1818, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820. He was returned to Parliament for Petersfield in December 1832, but was unseated on petition in March 1833. He served under Lord Grey as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1834. The latter year Shaw Lefevre was appointed a Poor Law Commissioner after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, which he remained until 1841. Between 1856 and 1875 he served as Clerk of the Parliaments. He also helped found the University of London and served as its Vice-Chancellor for many years. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1857 for his public services. Marriage and family Shaw Lefevre married Rachel Emily, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in",Q6257470,200,1
"Denis Caulfield Heron LL.D QC (16 February 1824, Dublin – 15 April 1881, Lough Corrib, County Galway) was an Irish lawyer and politician, who was Catholic Liberal MP for Tipperary, and a senior legal adviser to the British Crown. He was born in Dublin, the eldest son of William Heron, a merchant, and his wife Mary Maguire of Newry, Co Down. He was educated at Downside School, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, and proceeded to Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar. In December 1845 Heron was the subject of a celebrated hearing at Trinity College Dublin. Heron had previously been examined and, on merit, declared a scholar of the college but had not been allowed to take up his place due to his religion. Heron appealed to the Courts which issued a writ of mandamus requiring the case to be adjudicated by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Primate of Ireland. The decision of Richard Whately and John George Beresford was that Heron would remain excluded from Scholarship. In 1848 he received his law doctorate, and was called to the Bar. By 1852 Heron was professor of jurisprudence and political economy at Queen's College, Galway. In July 1860 he was appointed",Q5257153,200,0
"John Lancaster (1816 – 21 April 1884) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Lancaster was the son of John Lancaster of Prestwich, Lancashire. He was engaged in the coal and iron trades and was chairman of the Lancashire Union Railway. He was a JP for Lancashire and a Fellow of the Geological Society. In 1865 Lancaster stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at Wigan. At the 1868 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan. He held the seat until 1874. Lancaster died at the age of 67. The Graphic of Saturday, 26 April 1884 recorded ""Mr. John LANCASTER, formerly M.P., for Wigan, who rose from humble beginnings to the ownership of the great mines of Nantyglo Blaina, Monmouthshire. The captain and several of the crew of the 'Alabama', after its engagement with the 'Kearsarge', off Cherbourg, in 1864, were rescued by Mr. LANCASTER, who, to save them, exposed his yacht to the fire of the Federal war-steamer."" This refers to the Battle of Cherbourg in the American Civil War in which the Union sloop USS Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider CSS Alabama . In the aftermath, Lancaster, having observed",Q6243916,200,1
"Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire , (23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, was a British statesman. He has the distinction of having held leading positions in three political parties: leading the Liberal Party, the Liberal Unionist Party and the Conservative Party in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. After 1886 he increasingly voted with the Conservatives. He declined to become prime minister on three occasions, because the circumstances were never right. Historian and politician Roy Jenkins said he was ""too easy-going and too little of a party man."" He held some passions, but he rarely displayed them regarding the most controversial issues of the day. Background and education Devonshire was the eldest son of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Burlington, who succeeded his cousin as Duke of Devonshire in 1858, and Lady Blanche Cavendish (née Howard). Lord Frederick Cavendish and Lord Edward Cavendish were his younger brothers. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as MA in 1854, having taken a Second in the Mathematical Tripos. He later was made honorary LLD in",Q334063,200,0
"John Forbes (1801–1840) was a British director of the East India Company and Member of Parliament. Early life He was the eldest son of Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Cotgrave, daughter of Major John Cotgrave of the East India Company service, and may have been born in India. By 1809 he was being educated in the United Kingdom. In 1811 his father took up residence at Castle Newe, Aberdeenshire. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1819. His father's uncle and business partner, John Forbes (1743–1821) known as ""Bombay Jock"", had in 1767 formed Forbes & Co., trading at Bombay (now Mumbai) with significant involvement of Parsi merchants. His father put 20% of his inheritance from ""Bombay Jock"" in or soon after 1821 towards purchasing East India Company stock for John, who then had a vote in the company's affairs. When John turned 21, a party was held, and a cairn made on Lonach Hill in the Strathdon area in 1822, to celebrate. Further commemoration from 1823 led to the traditions of the Lonach Gathering. In politics His father Charles, a baronet from 1823, became Member of Parliament in 1818 for Malmesbury, a constituency controlled by",Q24568591,200,0
"John Trotter (died 1856) was a British Conservative politician. He was elected Conservative MP for West Surrey at a by-election in 1840 caused by the succession of George Perceval to the peerage. He held the seat until 1847 when he did not seek re-election. He died on 31 August 1856, aged 77 at the family home, Horton Manor, Epsom. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr John Trotter",Q26208039,71,0
"John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow , GCH (19 August 1779 – 15 September 1853) was a British Peer and Tory politician. Life Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and his second wife, Frances. He was educated at Eton (1788–93) and Trinity College, Cambridge (1797) before undertaking a European tour of Russia and Germany in 1801. In 1802 he was elected the MP for Clitheroe, holding the seat until 1807, when he succeeded to his father's title and estates, including Belton House near Grantham, Lincolnshire. In May 1805, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. From 1809 to 1852, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and in 1815 was created Earl Brownlow and Viscount Alford , of Alford, in the County of Lincoln . He was appointed to the Royal Guelphic Order as a Knight Grand Cross (GCH) in 1834. According to the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at the University College London, Brownlow was awarded compensation under the Slave Compensation Act 1837. In 1821, Brownlow's younger brother, Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet (1794–1878), had married Mary Anne Boode (1799–1882). Mary was the daughter and heiress of Lewis William and Margaret Boode (née Dannett). The Boodes",Q14949384,200,1
"William Young Craig (May 1827 – 1924) was a mining engineer, colliery owner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Craig was the son of John Craig of Burntisland, Fife, but was himself born at Haggerston, a village near Lindisfarne, Northumberland. He became a mining engineer and a coal and ironstone proprietor in North Staffordshire. He was president of the North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in 1879 and 1880. At the 1880 general election Craig was elected Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire. He held the seat until 1885. In the 1880s he purchased the Brynkinalt colliery near Chirk. Craig died at Wrexham the age of 96. Craig married Harriet Milton Stanney daughter of Captain Richard Stanney of the Isle of Wight in 1857. Their daughter Jean married Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet MP for Salisbury. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Craig",Q8020692,157,0
"James McCann (died 1873) was an Irish Liberal, Whig and Independent Irish Party politician. McCann was first elected Independent Irish Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Drogheda at the 1852 general election and—standing as a Whig in 1857 and Liberal in 1859—held the seat until 1865 when he did not seek re-election. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr James McCann",Q25861302,64,0
"Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet (24 May 1825 – 17 February 1905) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician. Life Jardine was born at Edinburgh the son of David Jardine of Muir House, Lockerbie, Dumfries and his wife Rachel Johnstone. In 1865 he became head of Jardine, Matheson and Co., one of the largest Far East trading houses based in Hong Kong. At the general election in July 1865, Jardine was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashburton in Devon where his uncle William Jardine had been an earlier MP. The Ashburton constituency was abolished at the 1868 general election and he was elected instead at Dumfries Burghs. In 1874 he changed seat again and stood unsuccessfully for Dumfriesshire. However he was elected at the next election in March 1880 and held the seat until he stood down at the 1892 general election. Jardine was created 1st Baronet Jardine, of Castlemilk, Dumfries in June 1885. He was J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Jardine lived at Castle Milk, Lockerbie. He died aged 79. Jardine married Margaret Seton Hamilton, daughter of John Buchanan Hamilton, and sister and heiress of John",Q11806930,200,1
"David Mure (11 October 1810 – 11 April 1891) was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1865, when he became a judge. Early life He was the third son of William Mure of Caldwell, Rector of the University of Glasgow 1793–1795; grandson of William Mure, MP for Renfrewshire 1742-1761 and Rector of Glasgow 1764–1765; younger brother of William Mure, MP for Renfrewshire 1846-1855 and Rector of Glasgow 1847–1848, and uncle of William Mure, MP for Renfrewshire 1874–1880. Career He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1858 and Lord Advocate in 1859. He elected at the 1859 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buteshire, and held the seat until January 1865, when he was appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice and with the judicial title Lord Mure. Personal life He was married to Helen Clementina Tod (d.1849) and together they had William John Mure (1845-1924). They lived at 8 Albyn Place on the Moray Estate near Charlotte Square. He died on 11 April 1891 and is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh with his wife and son. The grave lies in the",Q5237821,200,0
"James Douglas Stoddart Douglas (1793 – 25 February 1875) was a British Conservative Party politician. Life James Douglas Stoddart was born in 1793, the son of George Alexander Stoddart and mother known only by the surname Bridges. He served in the Royal Navy, promoted to Lieutenant in 1815 on HMS Doris , under Captain Robert O'Brien, then on the East India station. He became a Lieutenant in the Yeomanry Cavalry. He was elected at the 1841 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Rochester, but was defeated at the 1847 general election. Family Stoddart, as he then was, married, firstly, Margaret Braziere Douglas, daughter of George Douglas, in 1830. Margaret and her father, George, were both adopted. George Douglas of Chilston Park (died 1833) was a slave-owner in Trinidad and Tobago; he left property to Margaret and her husband. Stoddart changed his name to James Douglas Stoddart Douglas in 1833. A further inheritance towards the end of his life led to him styling himself James Douglas of Baads ; it related to the Scottish estate of Baads in West Calder (also Badds), which had earlier passed from George Douglas to Alexander Houston-Douglas, then Elizabeth Houston-Douglas.",Q6132789,200,0
"Frederick Doulton (1824–1872) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Lambeth from 5 May 1862 until 1868. Biography Frederick was the third of eight children of John Doulton (1793–1873), the founder of Royal Doulton ceramics, and Jane Duneau. He is the brother of Sir Henry Doulton who took the leading role in the family business and establishing it as a significant concern. Frederick married Sarah Merideth in 1846. Frederick worked in the family business and as an appointed member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the then principal instrument of London-wide government, raising some suspicion of his own interests. He died of apoplexy at Summerhill House, Tunbridge Wells on 21 May 1872, and was brought to West Norwood Cemetery for burial in his father's plot. Parliamentary career Frederick had first stood unsuccessfully for Lambeth in 1852 where he had adopted a platform critical of lavish campaigns and corrupt and unfair voting. Surprisingly, in 1857, he stood aside to nominate and support the candidature of William Roupell, a vain and shallow candidate who indulged in exorbitant campaigning and entertaining of electors. Doulton was alleged to have written Roupell's speeches though he denied as much. Doulton was",Q5497678,200,0
"Edward Crossley (1841 – 21 January 1905) was an English businessman, Liberal Party politician and astronomer. Biography Edward Crossley was the eldest son of Joseph Crossley J.P., of Broomfield, Halifax, Yorkshire, of the Crossley carpets dynasty. He inherited his family's carpet manufacturing business (John Crossley & Sons) from his father when he was 27. He married Jane Eleanor Baines, third daughter of the Leeds newspaper proprietor and MP Sir Edward Baines. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sowerby from 1885 to 1892. He was also mayor of Halifax from 1874–1876 and 1884–1885. He became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867. He built the Bermerside astronomical observatory, operational from 1867 to 1894, and purchased a 36-inch (910 mm) telescope from Andrew Ainslie Common in 1885, and employed Joseph Gledhill as an observer. With Gledhill and James Wilson (later Canon of Worcester), he wrote Handbook of Double Stars in 1879, which became a standard reference work. By 1895 Crossley had deemed the rainy English weather and the industrial air pollution at his observatory site unsuitable for astronomy, so he donated his 36-inch (910 mm) telescope to the Lick Observatory in California. Though extensively modified, it was used",Q3048490,200,1
"William Robert Bousfield (12 January 1854 – 16 July 1943) was a British lawyer, Conservative politician and scientist. Biography Bousfield was the son of Edward Tenney Bousfield, an engineer, and his wife Charlotte Eliza Collins, who was a noted diarist. He was born at Newark-on-Trent, from which his family moved to Sticklepath in 1856 and then to Bedford, where they arrived in September 1858. He attended Bedford Modern School before serving an apprenticeship as an engineer. In 1872 he was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, winning a scholarship there in 1873. Following graduation as 16th Wrangler in 1876 and a brief period as a lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he delivered the new institution's first ever lecture (on Mathematics at 9 a.m. 10 October 1876), he decided to study law. In 1880 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. His knowledge of engineering led to him becoming a renowned expert on patent law. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1891 (which office became King's Counsel on the accession of a King in 1901). He was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1897, and treasurer in 1920. Politically, Bousfield was a Conservative, and stood",Q8017613,200,0
"Francis Savage (1769 – 19 September 1823) was an Irish politician. He was the eldest son of Charles Savage of Ardkeen and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed Sheriff of County Down for 1791-92 and 1819–20. He was elected Member of Parliament for County Down in the Parliament of Ireland, 1794–1800 and for County Down in the United Kingdom Parliament, 1801–1812. References",Q5482393,64,0
"Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet , (20 December 1781 – 24 May 1849) was a British Tory politician. He held office under Sir Robert Peel as Paymaster of the Forces between 1834 and 1835 and as Paymaster General between 1841 and 1845. Background and education Knatchbull was the son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet, and Mary, daughter and heiress of William Western Hugessen, of Provender House in Norton, Kent, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and matriculated in 1800. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1802 and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1803. In 1819 he succeeded in the baronetcy on the death of his father. Political career Knatchbull was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent at a by-election in November 1819, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father. He held the seat until the 1831 general election, which he did not contest. The Reform Act 1832 split the Kent county constituency into Eastern and Western divisions, and at the 1832 general election Knatchbull and John Pemberton Plumptre were elected as Members for the new Eastern division of Kent. Knatchbull held that seat",Q9250977,200,1
"William Watson, Baron Watson , (25 August 1827 – 14 September 1899) was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He was Lord Advocate, the most senior Law Officer in Scotland, from 1876 to 1880, and was then appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Early life Watson was born in Covington, Lanarkshire on 25 August 1827. He was the eldest son and second of the six children of Eleonora and Reverend Thomas Watson. He was educated privately and studied law at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1851 and appeared for the defence of Dr Edward William Pritchard, the poisoner, in 1865. Career Watson was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, one of the Scottish Law Officers and deputy to the Lord Advocate, in 1874, and was elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1875. In 1876, the Lord Advocate, Edward Gordon, was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Lord Gordon of Drumearn) and resigned as Lord Advocate and Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. Watson won the ensuing by-election and was appointed Lord Advocate. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1878. Watson did not",Q1766037,200,0
"Sir Samuel Wilson (7 February 1832 – 11 June 1895) was an Irish-born Australian pastoralist and politician, and later a British Member of Parliament. Wilson was born in Ballycloughan, County Antrim, Ireland, in 1832. He was educated at Ballymena and at first intended taking up civil engineering. For three years he worked for a brother-in-law [Robert Chesney], a linen manufacturer, but in 1852 decided to emigrate to Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in May 1852 and worked on the goldfields, but a few months later decided to join two brothers who had preceded him to Australia, and had a pastoral property in the Wimmera. He was made manager of one of their holdings, and selling a small property he had in Ireland, with his brothers bought Longerenong station for £40,000. He dug waterholes and made dams on the property which much improved and increased its carrying capacity. Yanko station in the Riverina was then purchased and much improved. In 1869 Wilson bought his brothers' interests in their stations, afterwards bought other stations in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and became very wealthy. He was interested in the Acclimatization Society of Victoria and in 1873 wrote pamphlets on the angora",Q7412949,200,0
"Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston , FRS (4 December 1739 – 17 April 1802), was a British politician. Life Temple was a son of Henry Temple (son of Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston) and Jane, daughter of Sir John Barnard, Lord Mayor of London. He was born into 'the Ascendancy', the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. His family owned a vast country estate in the north of County Sligo in the west of Ireland. He succeeded to the peerage in 1757, and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge from 1757 to 1759. As a member of the British House of Commons, he represented the constituencies of East Looe between 1762 and 1768, Southampton between 1768 and 1774, Hastings between 1774 and 1784, Boroughbridge between 1784 and 1790, Newport, Isle of Wight between 1790 and 1796, and Winchester between 1796 and his death in 1802. He was appointed to the Board of Trade in 1765, was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty between 1766 and 1777, and was a Lord of the Treasury from 1777 to 1782. In 1763 Temple journeyed to Italy, staying with Voltaire at Ferney en route. He reached Rome in 1764, and from there visited Paestum, south of Naples. He",Q5729064,200,0
Charles Bell (1805 – 9 February 1869) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected MP for City of London in November 1868 but died just four months later in February 1869. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Charles Bell,Q26691292,45,0
"Nicholas Wood (1832 – 24 December 1892) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was born in Killingworth, Northumberland, where his father, also Nicholas Wood, was a locomotive engineer. The family subsequently moved to Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, where they took part in developing the coalfields. Educated at Repton School, he went on to be the proprietor of a number of mines in the Hetton area, as well as having interests in shipping and other industries. In 1881 he married Edith Florence Jervis of Staffordshire. He was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant of County Durham. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton-le-Spring at the 1886 general election, having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1885. He was defeated at the 1892 general election. He was believed to have been defeated by the votes of local miners who had been engaged in a lengthy strike and of Irish immigrants due to his opposition to Home Rule. He died from typhoid fever later that year in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, aged 60. He was buried in the churchyard at Saltwood near Hythe, Kent on 29 December. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament",Q13530074,200,0
"Donald Dalrymple (1814 – 19 September 1873) was an English surgeon and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1873. Dalrymple was born in 1814 in the family of William Dalrymple of Norwich and his wife Marianne Bertram, the daughter of Benjamin Bertram. He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and became a doctor. He was a Licenciate of the Apothecaries' Co., a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a member of the Royal College of Physicians. Dalrymple practiced as a surgeon for many years, but retired before entering parliament. Dalrymple served as Sheriff of Norwich from 1860 to 1861 and a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk. He was a director of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co., and chairman of the Governors of King Edward VI. Schools. Dalrymple was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was the author of On the Climate of Egypt. At the 1868 general election, Dalrymple was elected Member of Parliament for Bath. He held the seat until his death in 1873 at age 59. He died on 19 September 1873. Dalrymple married Sarah Springfield, daughter of Thomas Osborn Springfield. She died at Thorpe",Q5294217,200,1
"Colonel Sir Charles Wyndham Murray , (22 February 1844 – 1 November 1928) was a British Army officer and politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament MP for Bath from 1892 to 1906 and as Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod of the Order of the Bath from 1913 until his death. Biography Early life and education Charles Wyndham Murray was born on 22 February 1844, the son of Rev Thomas Boyles Murray and Helen Douglas, and was educated at Highgate School from 1853 until 1856, when he went to Marlborough College. The Rev Mr Murray served as Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and is remembered there by a pair of candle holders at the main entrance which were given by Thomas Douglas Murray 1841–1911 barrister, Egyptologist, author in memory of his father. Career He began his military career as an Ensign in the 61st South Gloucestershire Regiment in November 1862, promoted to Lieutenant in October 1865 and passed from Staff College in 1872. By October 1877 he was a Captain and in July 1881, a Major. During World War I, he served as military King's Messenger in France. In 1875, he was appointed Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General in Cork,",Q5083746,200,1
"Frederick North DL, JP (2 July 1800, Hastings – 29 October 1869), was a British Liberal politician. Background and education A member of the North family headed by the Earl of Guilford, Frederick North was the son of Francis Frederick North, great-grandson of the Hon. Roger North, younger son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North. Roger North's elder brother Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford was the great-grandfather of Prime Minister Lord North. Frederick North's mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend William Whitear. He was educated at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge. Political career North entered Parliament as one of two representatives for Hastings in 1831, a seat he held until 1835 and again between 1854 and 1865 and 1868 and 1869. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Norfolk. The highest point in Hastings is now named North's Seat in his honour, from which France can be seen on a clear day. Family North married Janet, daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks M.P., 1st Baronet of Lees in the County of Berwick, in 1825. They had several children, one of whom, Marianne, became a notable traveller and botanical illustrator. Janet died in January 1855. North",Q5498477,200,1
"Alexander William Hall (20 June 1838 – 29 April 1919) was an English Conservative politician. Hall was the son of Henry Hall and his wife Catherine Louisa Hood, daughter of Lord Bridport. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1862 he inherited the estate of Barton Abbey Steeple Aston. He was J.P., Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1867. Hall was elected Member of Parliament for Oxford in 1874. He lost the seat in 1880, but stood again at a by-election later that year. The election was hard-fought and his candidature enthusiastically supported by A. E. Housman but there were irregularities in the conduct of the election. Hall was unseated and the seat was left vacant until 1885. In 1885 Hall won the seat again and held it until 1892. Hall married Emma Gertrude Jowett and had several children. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Alexander William Hall",Q4720374,154,0
"Thomas Johnes FRS (1 September 1748 – 23 April 1816) was a Member of Parliament, landscape architect, farmer, printer, writer and social benefactor. He is best known for his development of the Hafod Estate in Wales. Johnes was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, England. Upon moving from his family home at Croft Castle to an isolated area near Cwmystwyth, in Ceredigion, Wales, Johnes began his life works by building a church for the local tenants, a school, and magnificent gardens, walks and bridges. He undertook experiments in sheep and cattle breeding together with the growing of new crops and a thriving dairy was established. Trees were planted in great quantities on land considered unsuitable for crops; Johnes obtained the Royal Society of Arts medal five times for planting trees. He encouraged his tenants to improve their farming practices when in 1800 he published A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants , with a Welsh translation and offered prizes for good crops. He was also one of the chief supporters of the Cardiganshire Agricultural Society, founded in 1784. Johnes devoted his entire life fortune to improving Hafod Estate. Family background and early life Johnes belonged to an old Welsh Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire",Q7791344,200,1
"Robert Tennant (1828 – 5 March 1900) of Chapel House in the parish of Conistone (now Conistone with Kilnsey, Burnsall), Yorkshire, England, was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Leeds, Yorkshire, from 1874 to 1880. He served as a captain in the Yorkshire Hussars and as a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire and for Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland in Scotland. Origins He was born in 1828, the youngest son of John Tennant Tennant (born 1790 as ""John Tennant Stansfield"") and Jane Tennant (born 1718). Robert's mother was a daughter of John Tennant (born 1686) of Chapel House, Yorkshire, whilst his father was a son of Jonathan Stansfield of Idle, Yorks, by his wife Miss Barcroft, a daughter of John Barcroft of Foulridge, Lancashire, Serving as a justice of the peace as well as a Captain in the 3rd West Yorkshire Militia, John Tennant Stansfield inherited the Chapel House estate from his childless great-uncle Robert Tennant (born 1725), and adopted the surname and arms of Tennant in compliance with the bequest. Chapel House, on the site of an ancient chapel belonging to Kilnsey Grange, a possession of Fountains Abbey, was purchased by the Tennant family in 1572. The",Q26238368,200,0
"George Herbert Morrell MA, MP, JP, DL (1845, Adderbury – 30 September 1906, Bad Nauheim) was an English politician and lawyer. George Herbert Morrell was the son of the Rev. G. K. Morrell, fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took honours in natural science as well as a B.C.L. in 1870. Morrell became a demonstrator in physiology at the Oxford university museum under George Rolleston. In 1874 he married his third cousin, Emilia Alicia Morrell (1854–1938), granddaughter of one of the founder of Morrells Brewery and the richest heiress in Oxfordshire. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Woodstock, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1895 till 1906. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Morrell",Q5540530,133,1
"Joseph Yorke (11 January 1807 – 4 February 1889), was a British Member of Parliament. Yorke was the son of Joseph Yorke and Catherine, daughter of James Cocks and sister of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers. His grandfather the Right Reverend James Yorke was the fifth son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke. He was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Reigate in 1831, a seat he held until the following year. He later served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire between 1844 and 1845. Yorke married Frances Antonia, daughter of Reginald Pole-Carew, in 1834. They lived at Forthampton Court in Gloucestershire. Yorke died on 4 February 1889, aged 82. His wife only survived him by three weeks and died on 27 February of the same year. Their son John Yorke was a Conservative politician. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Joseph Yorke",Q6288119,150,0
"William Haldimand (9 September 1784 – 20 September 1862) was an English philanthropist, director of the Bank of England, and Member of Parliament. He was the brother of Jane Marcet, a popular writer on science and economics. Life He was the son of Anthony Francis Haldimand (1741–1817), a London merchant, nephew and heir of Sir Frederick Haldimand. He was one of twelve children, most of whom died young, and was born in London 9 September 1784. At sixteen he entered his father's counting-house, showed talent for business, and at twenty-five became a director of the Bank of England. Haldimand was an advocate of the resumption of specie payments, and gave evidence in the parliamentary inquiry which led to the act of 1819. In 1820 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ipswich, and was re-elected in 1826, but when the return was disputed he gave up the seat. In 1828 Haldimand settled permanently at his summer villa, Denantou, near Lausanne. He supported Greek independence, sending the insurgents of the Greek War of Independence funds by his nephew, and guaranteeing Admiral Thomas Cochrane £20,000 to equip a fleet. A visit to Aix-les-Bains for his health resulted in his erecting there in",Q84034,200,1
"Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (8 October 1850 – 7 June 1933) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Anti-Parnellite representative for North Roscommon, 1892–95, a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, barrister (King's Counsel (K.C.)), and County Court Judge for County Clare, 1907–24. Early life Bodkin was the second son of a doctor, Thomas Bodkin, MD FRCSI, of Tuam, County Galway (a descendant of Tribes of Galway). His mother was Maria McDonnell of Westport, County Mayo, a cousin of Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell (1844–1925). Bodkin was educated at the Christian Brothers' school, Tuam and at Tullabeg Jesuit College. He had wanted to go to the Anglican Trinity College Dublin but his family objected on religious grounds and he attended the Catholic University of Ireland, which had a strong Roman Catholic ethos, instead. He was scathing about this experience: ""It is true I entered the so-called Catholic University, which had neither charter or endowment, and even obtained an exhibition on matriculation, but the business was so wholly futile that I abandoned it before six months was over, sacrificing my exhibition. A smattering of Terence was the",Q6791578,200,1
"Richard Lalor (1823 – 13 November 1893) was Irish Nationalist Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Queen's County, 1880–85 and for Queen's County (Leix), 1885–92. He was the son of Patrick ""Patt"" Lalor of Tenakill, Mountrath, Queen's County, who had himself been an M.P. for Queen's County in 1832–35. His eldest brother was James Fintan Lalor and his younger brother was the Australian politician Peter Lalor. His mother was Anna, daughter of Patrick Dillon of Sheane. He was educated privately and became a civil engineer and tenant farmer. Like his brother James Fintan, he was a Young Irelander. In 1852 he married Margaret, daughter of Michael Dunne of Mountrath. He became a magistrate for Queen's County. He headed the poll as a Parnellite Home Ruler in the election for the two Queen's County seats in 1880, ousting the former Home Rule member, Kenelm Digby. He then won the new Queen's County (Leix) seat in 1885, defeating his Conservative opponent by more than 7 to 1. He won again in 1886, by an even bigger margin. T. P. O'Connor described him in 1886: ""Today he is a feeble and bent man with wearied eyes and a thin voice,",Q7327223,200,0
"Richard McGhee (1851 –7 April 1930) was an Irish Protestant Nationalist home rule politician. A Georgist Land League and trade union activist, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for more than 20 years. Family and education McGhee was born in Lurgan, County Armagh in January or early February 1851, the son of a tenant farmer who later became a shopkeeper. McGhee was educated at the local school in Lurgan and then went to Glasgow to become an engineering apprentice. In 1880 he married Mary Campbell, who lived until 1949. They had five sons and a daughter. One of his sons was Henry McGhee who became the Labour MP for Penistone from 1935 to 1959. Career McGhee was a merchant with connections to industry in County Antrim. He specialised in cutlery and stationery. In the 1880s he became involved in labour and trade union causes. He belonged to the American Knights of Labor which had set up some branches in Britain and by 1887 was one of their organisers in Cradley Heath in the Black Country of the West Midlands. The Knights then sent McGhee to",Q7327738,200,0
"Frederick Stuart (24 September 1751 – 17 May 1802) was a British East India Company employee and politician. He was born on 24 September 1751, the third son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, and his wife Mary Wortley Montagu. Lord Bute was to become Prime Minister of Great Britain (1762–63) under George III. Frederick's siblings included: John, a politician; James and Charles, soldiers and politicians; William, an Anglican bishop; and Louisa, a writer. He studied at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, before running away briefly to Paris. Described as the ""black sheep of the family"", his father obtained a writership for him at the East India Company in 1769, which was unusual for a family with such as position in society. He worked in Bengal and befriended Warren Hastings, who gave him a mission to the Nawab of Arcot. After returning from India in 1775, Stuart entered parliament, representing the family interest of Ayr Burghs following a by-election in 1776. No seat was found for him in 1780; indebted, he fled to Paris in 1782. His brother, John, 1st Marquess of Bute, provided refuge and returned him to parliament in 1796 to represent the family interest of",Q18190130,200,0
"Sir William Chichele Plowden (1832 – 4 September 1915) was a Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council in India, and subsequently a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1886 to 1892. Plowden was the son of William Plowden FRS MP of Ewhurst Park and his wife Jane Annette Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell. He was educated at Harrow School and Haileybury College. He was in the Bengal Civil Service as Census Commissioner for India and Secretary of the Board of Revenue of the North West Provinces. He was also a member of the Legislative Council in Calcutta. In 1886, he was knighted as KCSI. In the 1886 general election, Plowden was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton West and held the seat until 1892. Plowden married Emily Frances Ann Bass (1841–1915), the eldest daughter of [[Michael Thomas Bass Jr., MP for Derby and his wife, Eliza Jane Arden. Emily was the sister of Lord Burton and Hamar Alfred Bass. The Plowdens lived at Aston Rowant House, Oxfordshire, and at 5 Park Crescent, Portland Place. They had a daughter, Margaret who married Hubert Mostyn, 7th Lord Vaux. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in",Q8006770,200,1
"William Crosfield (1838 – 17 May 1909) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Lincoln, Lincolnshire in the 25th Parliament between 1892 and 1895. A Congregationalist, William Crosfield was head of the sugar firm of Messrs. George Crosfield and Company. He was a member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, and took an interest in civic and philanthropic organizations in Liverpool. He died suddenly of apoplexy at Liverpool Town Hall on 17 May 1909. References External links Hansard",Q26701525,86,0
"James Brodie of Brodie , 21st Thane and Chief of Clan Brodie, FRS FLS (31 August 1744 – 17 January 1824) was a Scottish politician and botanist. He was educated at Elgin Academy and St. Andrews University. He was returned to parliament in 1796 as MP for Elginshire, serving until 1807. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Nairn. As a botanist, Brodie specialised in cryptogamic flora, i.e. plants which reproduce by spores, such as algae, ferns and mosses. He discovered a number of new species both around Edinburgh and on his own property at Brodie. His collection is now held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He corresponded with other eminent botanists of his time, including Sir William Jackson Hooker and Sir James Edward Smith. Brodie was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1795, and of the Royal Society in 1797. The genus Brodiaea is named in his honour. He married Lady Margaret Duff, sister of James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife, and had two sons and two daughters. References Charters, Michael L. ""Brodiaea"". California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations: A Dictionary of Botanical Etymology . Retrieved 17 March 2008 . ""James Brodie of Brodie"". Botanists",Q6130260,200,1
"Sir John Talbot Dillwyn-Llewelyn, 1st Baronet (26 May 1836 – 6 July 1927) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was notable for his links to Welsh sports. Background and education Llewelyn was the son of photographer and scientist John Dillwyn Llewelyn and Emma Thomasina Talbot, youngest daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot and Lady Mary (née Fox Strangways) of Penrice, south Wales and a cousin of William Henry Fox Talbot. He was educated at Eton and later Christ Church, Oxford. Political career Llewelyn was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1878 and Mayor of Swansea in 1891. In March 1888, Llewelyn contested the Gower by-election as a Conservative candidate. The Liberal ranks had been affected by divisions over the choice of candidate and Llewelyn ran a strong campaign. Unusually for a Conservative candidate he held meetings in nonconformist chapels, including one at Zoar, Ystalyfera which was said to have been well attended by the working men of the district. Llewelyn polled well although narrowly defeated by David Randell. In 1889 he was elected as one of the first members of Glamorgan County Council and was immediately made an alderman, to which role he was re-elected in 1895. He was created",Q7527724,200,1
"James Farrer (8 May 1812 – 13 June 1879) was a Conservative Party politician in England who was elected three times as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Durham. He unsuccessfully contested the 1841 general election, but was elected unopposed in 1847 after John Bowes stepped down. He was re-elected unopposed in 1852, but in 1857 he lost his seat to the Liberal candidate, Henry Pease. When the Liberal Lord Harry George Vane stepped down at the 1859 general election, Farrer was again elected unopposed. He retired from politics at the 1865 general election. Archaeology James Farrer was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His excavations included: a partial excavation of brochs on Orkney from 1853; the opening of Maeshowe in July 1861; and the first excavation of Chedworth Roman Villa, from 1864 to 1866. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Farrer",Q6133785,157,1
"Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet (7 May 1807 – 13 August 1897) was an inventor and manufacturer, who is known both for his work in developing the Square Motion wool-combing machine and as a Radical Liberal Member of Parliament. Life Holden was born in the village of Hurlet near Glasgow. He was largely self-educated: his formal education was often disrupted. He was apprenticed from the age of ten for a short period as a draw boy for two hand weavers, but attended the grammar school run by the 'Old Radical' John Fraser. He became a pupil-teacher and then sought to become a Wesleyan Minister, before teaching at schools in Slaithwaite and Leeds. In 1829 Holden obtained a post at the Castle Academy in Reading, Berkshire. It was here that he developed a version of the Lucifer match, but his invention was superseded by John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees in 1827, who did not patent the invention. The following year Holden returned to Scotland to set up a night school in Glasgow, but after a brief period of teaching he moved in 1830 to become a bookkeeper at Townsends' worsted factory in Cullingworth near Bingley. Transferring to the technical side and becoming",Q3154745,200,0
"James Platt (1823 – 27 August 1857) was a British Radical politician and manufacturer. Manufacturing business Alongside his brother John, Platt was a partner in the world's largest machine-making firm, Platt Brothers; the firm—established by their father Henry in partnership with Elijah Hibbert—created machinery for the textile industry in the UK and overseas. In 1854, the Platt brothers bought out the Hibberts' interest. Political career Platt was active in local politics, taking a leading role in successfully campaigning for Oldham to be incorporated as a municipal borough. This happened in 1849, with Platt being elected as one of the town's first councillors, holding that position until 1852 when he was defeated. However, he returned to the council in 1853, and then chosen as an alderman in 1856. he was particularly active on educational issues, noting that ""ignorance is... the parent and perpetuation of error and misery"". His council career aided his parliamentary career, allowing him to be elected Radical MP for Oldham in 1857. Supporters of the incumbent Radical William Johnson Fox approached both Platt and his brother in 1856 to stand for election, with James accepting. However, local divisions led to a rival candidate John Morgan Cobbett also standing",Q26735310,200,0
"Patrick Fullam (1847 – 18 January 1924) was an Irish nationalist politician who served briefly in the 1890s as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Meath, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Political career At the 1892 general election, Fullam stood as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate in South Meath, and in a two-way contest with a Parnellite candidate he won the seat by the narrow margin of 2,212 votes to 2199. However, the result was voided after an electoral petition, and at the resulting by-election on 17 February 1893, Jeremiah Jordan was elected in his place. He died, a farmer, in Donore, County Meath on 18 January 1924. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Patrick Fullam",Q7146532,132,0
"Sam Woods (10 May 1846 – 23 November 1915) was a British trade unionist and politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1890s. Born at Peasley Cross in St Helens, Woods began working in coal mining at the age of seven. He was elected as a pit checkweighman in 1875 and became strongly involved in trade unionism, joining the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation in 1881. When this merged into the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) in 1889, Woods became the organisation's first vice president. In the 1892 general election, Woods was elected as a Lib–Lab MP for Ince. In Parliament, he agitated for the Eight Hours Bill, and in 1894 he was elected as the Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). He lost his seat at the 1895 general election, but was re-elected for Walthamstow at a by-election in 1897. However, he lost the seat in 1900 following confusion over his stance on the Second Boer War. While broadly supportive of the Labour Representation Committee, Woods remained a Liberal and joined the National Democratic League. His health failing, he resigned his TUC post in 1904, but retained his vice",Q7408356,200,0
"Robert Wellbeloved Scott , born Robert Wellbeloved (15 July 1803 – 21 February 1856) was the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall, England from 1841 to 1847. He was born to the Revd Charles Wellbeloved and Ann née Kinder (d. 31 January 1823) and trained as a barrister. On 17 February 1830 he married Sarah Scott, the only daughter and heiress of John Scott of Stourbridge and the Red House, Great Barr, Staffordshire and on her father's death in 1832 assumed the additional surname of Scott. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Worcestershire. He rebuilt The Red House at Great Barr, England in 1841 and had residences at Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park, London; and High Street, Stourbridge. In 1845 he purchased the manor and estates of Ratlinghope, between the Long Mynd and the Stiperstones in Shropshire. His sister Emma (d. 29 July 1842) married Sir James Carter in 1831. He died in 1856 aged 52. He and his wife had one son, John Charles Addyes Scott and three daughters. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Wellbeloved Scott Genealogical biography",Q7350957,190,0
"Francis Horner FRSE (12 August 1778 – 8 February 1817) was a Scottish Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist. Early life: 1778–1807 He was born in Edinburgh the son of John Horner a linen merchant and his wife Joanna Baillie. The family lived originally on Princes Street then moved to 19 York Place. His younger brother was Leonard Horner. He had another younger brother, John Horner Esq. (1782-1829), and a younger sister, Frances Horner (1789-1876) who married Myles Byrne. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh under Dr Alexander Adam. He then spent a year at a private school in Shacklewell near London under John Hewlett. He then studied law at University of Edinburgh, where he was praised by Professor Dugald Stewart as an intellectual all-rounder. He left the university in 1795 and went with Rev. John Hewlett to Middlesex, where he almost lost his Scottish accent. He was also a member of the Speculative Society (with Henry Brougham) and the Academy of Physics, the Chemical and Literary societies, as well as others. In May 1799 he read Henry Addington's speech in favour of the union with Ireland, and wrote in his journal: ""I like, throughout this",Q5481323,200,1
"Joseph Edward Kenny (1845 – 9 April 1900) was an Irish physician, Coroner of the City of Dublin, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP). In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, he was an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for South Cork from 1885 to 1892, and then a Parnellite MP for Dublin College Green from 1892 until his resignation in 1896. Son of J. Kenny, manager of a lead mine at Palmerstown, County Dublin, he was educated at the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin and at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained his doctorate in medicine (M.D.) in 1870. After returning to Dublin, he became a medical officer to the North Dublin Union and in this role treated smallpox victims in the ""sheds"" at Glasnevin in the north Dublin epidemic of 1872. He caught the disease himself in spite of having been vaccinated. An active Irish Nationalist, in 1881 he was arrested under the Coercion Act and confined in Kilmainham Jail. Here his status as a qualified physician was of considerable value to his fellow Nationalist prisoners, including Charles Stewart Parnell, because he was able to insist that the prison",Q6105476,200,1
Joseph William Noble (1799 – 6 January 1861) was a British Liberal politician. Noble was a highly respected local medical practitioner who was elected Liberal MP for Leicester at the 1859 general election with a majority of 20 votes. : 45 He held the seat until his death in 1861. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Joseph Noble,Q15700879,62,1
"James Maitland Balfour (5 January 1820 – 23 February 1856) was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom, and inherited a significant portion of his father's great wealth. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the 1840s, and was the father of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour. Life Balfour was the son of James Balfour ( c. 1775–1845) and his wife Lady Eleanor, daughter of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Balfour inherited his father's neo-classical mansion Whittingehame House and his Highland estate in Ross-shire, as well as a house in Grosvenor Square, London. He also inherited his father's business skills, and became a director of the North British Railway at the height of the railway mania, which earned him a fortune. He served as Member of Parliament for Haddington from 1841 until 1847 and was also Major Commandant of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, who erected the Balfour Monument in his honour overlooking Traprain Law, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km) south west of East Linton in Scotland. Balfour married Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of",Q6138831,200,0
"Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords. Early life and family Colston was the son of Edward Colston, of Roundway Park near Devizes, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Rev. Edward Murray from Northolt in Middlesex. in 1879 he married Rosalind Emma Gostling-Murray, daughter of Col. Charles Gostling-Murray of Hounslow. Career He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1885, and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in the same year. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire. At the 1885 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Bristol North. He was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thornbury, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1906 general election by the Liberal candidate Athelstan Rendall. He was elevated to the peerage in the 1916 Birthday Honours,",Q5076394,200,0
"Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos , (10 September 1823 – 26 March 1889), styled Earl Temple until 1839 and Marquess of Chandos from 1839 to 1861, was a British soldier, politician and administrator of the 19th century. He was a close friend and subordinate of Benjamin Disraeli and served as the secretary of state for the colonies from 1867 to 1868 and governor of Madras from 1875 to 1880. Buckingham was the only son of Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the British Army, eventually rising to become a colonel. Buckingham entered politics, as Lord Chandos, in 1846 when he was elected unopposed from Buckinghamshire as a candidate of the Conservative Party. Buckingham served as a member of Parliament from 1846 to 1857, when he resigned. He contested a re-election in 1859, but lost. Buckingham served in various political offices during his tenure. In March 1867, he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies and served until December 1868. He also served as governor of Madras from 1875 to 1880. As governor, he handled the relief measures for the victims of",Q3701723,200,0
"James Whiteside (12 August 1804 – 25 November 1876) was an Irish politician and judge. Background and education Whiteside was born at Delgany, County Wicklow, the son of William Whiteside, a clergyman of the Church of Ireland. His father was transferred to the parish of Rathmines, but died when his son was only two, leaving his widow in straitened circumstances. She is said to have schooled her son personally in his early years. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the Irish bar in 1830. Legal and judicial career Whiteside very rapidly acquired a large practice, and after taking silk in 1842 he gained a reputation for forensic oratory surpassing that of all his contemporaries, and rivalling that of his most famous predecessors of the 18th century. He defended Daniel O'Connell in the state trial of 1843, and William Smith O'Brien in 1848; and his greatest triumph was in the Yelverton case in 1861. He was elected member for Enniskillen in 1851, and in 1859 became member for Dublin University. In Parliament, he was no less successful as a speaker than at the bar, and in 1852 was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland",Q6145452,200,0
"Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal , PC (12 December 1776 – 6 July 1846) was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended the then Queen of the United Kingdom, Caroline of Brunswick, at her trial for adultery in 1820. As Chief Justice of Common Pleas, an office he held with distinction from 1829 to 1846, he was responsible for the inception of the special verdict ""Not Guilty by reason of insanity"" at the trial of Daniel M'Naghten. Judge Tindal was born in the Moulsham area of Chelmsford, where 199 Moulsham Street is today, and the site is marked with a commemorative plaque. Background Tindal's father, Robert Tindal, was an attorney in Chelmsford, where his family had lived at Coval Hall for three generations. His great-grandfather, Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin – a seminal work in its day – and he was also the great-great-grandnephew of Matthew Tindal, the deist and author of Christianity as Old as the Creation (known as the 'deist's bible') and descendant of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. Nicholas's branch of the Tindal family were descended from John Tindal, Rector of Bere Ferris in Devon",Q14949400,200,0
"Arthur Mills (20 February 1816 – 12 October 1898) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP). In his career, he was also a barrister, magistrate, and author in Cornwall and London. His travels to the 19th century British colonies and his studies of their finances and systems of governance made him an expert in the field. Family Mills was born in Barford, Warwickshire in 1816. He was the first surviving son (the second son born) of Revd Francis Mills and Lady Catherine Mordaunt. He was educated at Rugby School under Dr. Thomas Arnold. He attended Balliol College in 1835 and earned an M.A. from Oxford in 1838. Arthur Mills married Lady Agnes Lucy Dyke Acland, daughter of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet of Killerton, Devon, and Lydia Elizabeth Hoare on 3 August 1848. They had two sons, Revd Barton R. V. Mills and Col. Dudley Acland Mills of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Grandchildren of Arthur Mills included children's book author and schoolmaster George Mills, crime and adventure novelist Arthur F. H. Mills, and Arthur Hobart Mills' wife, Lady Dorothy Mills, the renowned novelist, explorer, and travel writer. From 1873 to 1885 Mills was a member of",Q4799731,200,0
"Admiral John Elphinstone Erskine (13 July 1806 – 23 June 1887) was a Royal Navy officer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1874. Background and education A member of Clan Erskine, he was the son of David Erskine, of Cardross, Stirling, and the great-grandson of the jurist John Erskine. His mother was the Hon. Keith Elphinstone, the daughter of John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth and entered the Royal Navy in 1819. Naval career Erskine's first command was the gunboat HMS Arachne on the Jamaica station in 1829. He served in the Mediterranean and was promoted to captain on 28 June 1839. He was the flag captain to his cousin, Sir Charles Adam, on the West Indies station. After three years on half-pay from 1845 to 1847 he was appointed senior officer on HMS Havannah on the Australian station. Between 25 June and 7 October 1849, he toured Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia. In 1850 he visited the Solomon Islands and other islands and published his account of the expeditions in Journal of Cruise among the Islands",Q6231900,200,1
"John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon , PC (14 November 1757 – 22 December 1838) was a British peer and Member of Parliament from the Villiers family. Biography Villiers was born on 14 December 1757, the second son of Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Capel, 3rd Earl of Essex, and Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon. He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge and graduated with an MA in 1776 and an LL.D on 30 April 1833. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 22 June 1779. In January 1784 Lord Camelford (probably at Pitt the Elder's request) brought Villiers into Parliament at a by-election for Old Sarum, and he represented that rotten borough until 1790, and then sat for Dartmouth 1790–1802, and for the Tain Burghs from 1802 until 27 May 1805, when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds (in order to resign his Parliamentary seat). He was afterwards member for Queenborough 1807–1812 and 1820–1824. Villiers did not make his mark in Parliament as a debater, and was styled ""a mere courtier, famous for telling interminable long stories"". The Rolliad notices him as ""Villiers, comely with the flaxen hair"", and likens him to",Q15989904,200,0
"Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , (7 June 1770 – 4 December 1828) was a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. He also held many other important cabinet offices such as Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. He was also a member of the House of Lords and served as leader. As prime minister, Jenkinson called for repressive measures at domestic level to maintain order after the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He dealt smoothly with the Prince Regent when King George III was incapacitated. He also steered the country through the period of radicalism and unrest that followed the Napoleonic Wars. He favoured commercial and manufacturing interests as well as the landed interest. He sought a compromise of the heated issue of Catholic emancipation. The revival of the economy strengthened his political position. By the 1820s, he was the leader of a reform faction of ""Liberal Tories"" who lowered the tariff, abolished the death penalty for many offences, and reformed the criminal law. By the time of his death, however, the Tory party, which had dominated the House of Commons for",Q312569,200,0
"Robert William Cochran-Patrick LLD (5 February 1842 – 15 March 1897) was a Scottish Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Cochran-Patrick was the only son of William Charles Richard Cochran of Woodside in Beith, Ayrshire, and his wife Agnes Cochran, daughter of William Cochran of Ladyland, Ayrshire. He was educated privately and then at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was a J.P. for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire and a Deputy Lieutenant for Ayrshire. At the 1880 general election Cochran-Patrick was elected Member of Parliament for Ayrshire North. He held the seat until 1885. He was Permanent Under-Secretary for Scotland from 1887 to 1892 when he retired owing to ill-health. He was vice-chairman of the Scottish Fishery Board in 1896. In 1876 he published his first book, entitled 'Records of the Coinage of Scotland from the earliest Period to the Union,' in 2 volumes. This concluded the a vast proportion of Scottish coins were made from natice gold and silver. Cochran-Patrick died at the age of 55. Cochran-Patrick married Eleanora Hunter daughter of Robert Hunter of Hunter, Ayrshire in 1866. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Cochran-Patrick",Q7351077,200,0
"Sir Arthur Leary Piggott (19 October 1749 – 6 September 1819) was an English lawyer and politician. Biography He was born in the parish of Saint Michael, Barbados on 19 October 1749, the son of John Piggott of Grenada, and trained for the law at the Middle Temple, being called to the Bar in 1777. He then entered Trinity College, Oxford. He began his legal career in Grenada, where he was appointed Attorney-General, returning to England in 1783, where after building up a practice as a common lawyer, he moved to the court of Chancery. He was Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales from 1783 to 1792, when he was discharged because of his membership of the Society of the Friends of the People, a radical reform group. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787. Under the Whig administration of 1806, he was selected to be Attorney-General, was knighted by the king and given a safe parliamentary seat by the Duke of Norfolk at Steyning. In the 1806 general election, the Duke found him a seat at Arundel, which he held until 1812. In 1812, he was returned for Horsham, sitting until 1818. In that year,",Q4799975,200,1
"James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury , (17 April 1791 – 12 April 1868), styled Viscount Cranborne until 1823, was a British Conservative politician. He held office under the Earl of Derby as Lord Privy Seal in 1852 and Lord President of the Council between 1858 and 1859. He was the father of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and grandfather of Arthur Balfour, who also served as Prime Minister. Background Salisbury was the son of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, and Lady Emily Mary Hill, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire. Political career Salisbury entered the House of Commons in 1813 as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, a seat he held until 1817, and then sat for Hertford between 1817 and 1823. In the latter year, he succeeded his father in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords. He served in the Lord Derby's first two cabinets as Lord Privy Seal in 1852 and as Lord President of the Council between 1858 and 1859. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1826 and made a Knight of the Garter in 1842.",Q2479905,200,0
"Nathaniel Dimsdale , FRS (11 April 1748 – 3 July 1811), a British physician and MP who received a Barony of the Russian Empire for his work in Russia on smallpox vaccination. He was the second son of the Quaker Thomas Dimsdale, a Hertfordshire physician, banker, and MP, and was educated at Eton School. After travelling with his father to St. Petersburg in 1768 to inoculate Catherine the Great and her son, Grand Duke Paul, against smallpox, he, along with his father, received an annuity and was created Baron Dimsdale of the Russian Empire. On his return, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB in 1771. He returned to Russia with his father in 1781 to carry out further inoculations within the Russian royal family. He became a partner in the family bank of Baron Dimsdale, Sons, Barnard and Staples, established by his father. When his father retired in 1790, he succeeded to his father's Parliamentary seat for Hertford, holding it until 1802. In 1805, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. By then, he was not in good health and died on a trip for his health to Brighton in 1811. He",Q21166830,200,1
"Sir Ralph Noel, 6th Baronet (28 July 1747 – 19 March 1825) was a British landowner and politician, father-in-law of Lord Byron and grandfather of the mathematician Lady Ada Lovelace. Before 1815 he was known as Sir Ralph Milbanke . Biography He was the eldest son of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Hedworth. His uncle John Milbanke was married to a sister of the Whig leader Lord Rockingham, and his sister was the political hostess Lady Melbourne. On 9 January 1777 he married Judith Noel, daughter of Lord Wentworth; they had one daughter, Anne Isabella. Milbanke succeeded his father as sixth baronet on 8 January 1798. The family lived at Seaham Hall, County Durham, but also owned property in Northumberland and Yorkshire. Milbanke was elected Member of Parliament for County Durham at the 1790 general election. A Foxite Whig, he supported abolition of the slave trade and Catholic emancipation. By 1812, worsening health and declining finances obliged him to retire from the Commons. Milbanke's wife Judith succeeded to the Leicestershire estates of her brother Thomas in 1815 and on 29 May that year Milbanke adopted the surname of Noel by royal licence. He",Q26326946,200,0
"Sir James Colquhoun, 3rd Baronet, of Luss (28 September 1774 – 3 February 1836) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumbartonshire from 1799 to 1806. Colquhoun was a Scottish aristocratic major in 1799 when he married the writer Janet Sinclair. He did not support her religious zeal. He was the heir to an estate in Dunbartonshire. It has been proposed that Colquhoun and his wife were the basis for the characters of Rabina and George Colwan in Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . References",Q19872221,90,0
"James Sidebottom (June 1824 – 14 February 1871) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was the youngest son of Edward Sidebottom, and was born at ""The Hydes"", Stalybridge, Cheshire. The Sidebottoms were a prominent family in the town, both in business and administrative matters. James attended Manchester Grammar School before becoming a member of the family cotton manufacturing firm of Edward Sidebottom and Sons. Sidebottom entered the local government of Stalybridge as a member of the police commissioners. When the town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857, he was elected as one of the corporation's first aldermen. In 1864 he was chosen as mayor of the borough, and held the office for three years in succession. As mayor he laid the foundation stone of the Victoria Market Hall in 1868. In 1868 Stalybridge was enfranchised as a parliamentary borough, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. Sidebottom was nominated as the Conservative candidate, and was elected as the town's first MP. He became ill in 1870, and died at his residence ""Acre Banks"", Stalybridge, in February 1871, aged 46. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Sidebottom",Q6143153,199,0
"Sir John Esmonde, 10th Baronet (16 May 1826 – 9 December 1876) was an Irish nationalist politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1852 until his death 25 years later. Early life and family Esmonde was the son of Royal Navy officer James Esmonde and his wife Anna Maria ( née Murphy). He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated in 1850 with an honours degree in classics. He was called to the bar of Ireland in the same year. In 1861 he married Louisa Grattan, the fourth daughter of Henry Grattan MP, and granddaughter of 18th-century parliamentary leader Henry Grattan. They had four sons and two daughters, Thomas, Laurence, Walter, John, Ellice, and Annette. In 1868, he inherited the baronetcy and estates of his uncle Thomas. Career He was elected at the 1852 general election as one of the two members of parliament (MPs) for County Waterford. Both Esmonde and his fellow Waterford MP Nicholas Mahon Power were elected as candidates of the Irish Liberal Party, which had been in alliance with nationalists. Power was accused of acting ""selfishly and parsimoniously"" towards Esmonde, who was described",Q16937367,200,0
"Robert Dimsdale (1 July 1828 – 2 May 1898) was an English banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1866 and 1892. Dimsdale was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, the son of Charles John Dimsdale, and his wife Jemima Pye. He was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Dimsdale was a J.P. and a Deputy Lieutenant for Hertfordshire and a J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster. In 1872 he became the sixth Baron Dimsdale of the Russian Empire on the death of his father, Charles John. The barony had been conferred by Catherine the Great on an ancestor, Thomas Dimsdale (1712-1800), who had inoculated the Empress and her son against smallpox in 1769. Dimsdale stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Hertford in 1859. He was elected Member of Parliament for Hertford in 1866 and held the seat until 1874. He was elected for Hitchin in 1885, and held the seat until 1892. Dimsdale married Cecilia Jane Southwell and lived at Essendon Place, Essendon, Hertfordshire which was the family seat. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Dimsdale Photographic portrait at St Albans museum",Q7343554,193,1
"William Congreve Russell (15 April 1778 – 1850) was a Whig politician in England. Russell was the son of Thomas Russell, of Moor Green, Moseley, Worcestershire (now Birmingham), by his second wife, Mary Garner. He was commissioned a captain when the North Worcestershire Volunteers were formed in September 1803. On 19 July 1820, he married Elizabeth Mary Hopper (d. 27 June 1821), by whom he had one daughter: Elizabeth Mary Russell, married in 1839 to Joseph Bailey He was elected at the 1832 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for East Worcestershire, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1835 general election. He was also High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1839. Kings Heath Park was made for him. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Russell",Q8007043,137,0
"James Amyatt (1734–1813), of Freemantle, Hampshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1806. Amyatt was the second son. of Benjamin Amyatt of Totnes and was baptized on 18 July 1734. He is said to have become a captain in the service of the East India Company. He became a free merchant in India. He married Maria Amyatt widow of Peter Amyatt of the council of Calcutta, and daughter of Rev. W. Wollaston of Norfolk. At the 1774 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Totnes in a contest. In 1784 he was elected MP for Southampton and held the seat until 1806. References",Q19870717,113,0
"Admiral Theobald Jones (15 April 1790 – 7 February 1868), also known as Toby Jones , was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy, a Tory politician, a noted lichenologist, and a fossil-collector. The County Londonderry-born son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, Jones was descended from a 17th-century Welsh settler in Ireland. Several generations of his family had held public office in the Kingdom of Ireland, including membership of the pre-union Parliament of Ireland. Entering the navy aged 13 during the Napoleonic Wars, the teenage Jones survived several naval engagements and the burning of his ship at night when he was 16. After ten years serving under the captaincy of his step-mother's brother, Henry Blackwood, Jones reached the rank of commander by age 25, and captain at 38, but never actually sailed as a captain. Aged 40, Jones entered Parliament for County Londonderry, in the interest of the Marquess of Waterford. An Orangeman and Ultra Tory of ""plain unassuming manners"", he sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at Westminster from 1830 until he stood down from Parliament in 1857. A member of several learned societies, he occupied his retirement from politics by making the",Q17423498,200,1
"Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley , (22 November 1842 – 13 September 1910) was an English civil servant, banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906. Biography Bartley was born at Stoke Newington, the son of Robert Bartley and his wife Julia Anne Lucas. He was educated at Clapton, London and University College School. He entered public service and worked for twenty years at the Science and Art Department, becoming Assistant Director. He was interested in poverty and social issues and published works on education and on building self-reliance He supported technical education, and was treasurer of the Society of Arts. He established a Penny Bank, which became the National Penny Bank. He was a J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster. Trout Bartley stood for parliament in Hackney at the 1880 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North at the 1885 general election and held the seat until his defeat in 1906. He announced that he would stand again when a suitable opportunity arose, and contested the Kingston upon Hull West by-election in November 1907. The intervention for the first time of a Labour Party",Q5545329,200,0
"Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet , (18 December 1841 – 2 October 1924), was a Scottish doctor, newspaper editor and Liberal politician. Cameron was born in Dublin, the son of John Cameron, newspaper proprietor of Glasgow and Dublin. He was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He also studied at medical schools in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, but never practised medicine. He became editor of the North British Daily Mail (later incorporated into the Daily Record ) in 1864, and was managing proprietor of the paper from 1873. At the 1874 general election, Cameron was elected as one of the three Members of Parliament (MPs) for Glasgow. The constituency was broken up under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and he was elected at the 1885 general election as the MP for the new Glasgow College constituency. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1895 general election. Cameron was created baronet Cameron of Balclutha, Renfrew, on 7 August 1893 for his journalistic and parliamentary services. He was subsequently elected as MP for Glasgow Bridgeton at a by-election in February 1897, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election.",Q7526186,200,1
"Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth , (8 July 1849 – 15 September 1909), was a moderate British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords. He served in various capacities in the Liberal governments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Tweedmouth was the son of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and Isabella, daughter of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet. Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was his sister. He was descended from Joseph Marjoribanks, a wine and fish merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1635 and is thought to have been the grandson of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head of the lowland Clan Marjoribanks. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, but expelled in 1870 following a prank that led to the damage of college sculptures. Political career Tweedmouth was returned to Parliament for Berwickshire in 1880, a seat he held until 1894. The seat had been held earlier in the century by his great-uncle, Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet, and cousin, Charles Albany Marjoribanks. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Comptroller of the Household in",Q334352,200,0
"Denis William Pack-Beresford (7 July 1818 – 28 December 1881), known as Denis William Pack until 1854, was an Irish Conservative Party politician. Early life and family Pack was the son of decorated military officer Denis Pack and Elizabeth Louisa Beresford. In early life, Pack was a Captain of the Royal Artillery. Upon inheriting estates from his uncle, General William Carr Beresford, in 1854, he also inherited the arms of Beresford, and assumed the additional surname. In 1856, he became a High Sheriff. Pack-Beresford then married Annette Caroline Browne, daughter of Robert Clayton Browne and Harriette Augusta Hamilton, in 1863. Together, they had nine children: Elizabeth Harriet Pack-Beresford (died 1937) Annette Louisa Pack-Beresford (died 1941) Denis Robert Pack-Beresford (1864–1942) Arthur William Pack-Beresford (1868–1902) Charles George Pack-Beresford (1869–1914), an officer in the West Kent Regiment. Henry John Pack-Beresford (1871–1945), an officer in the Highland Light Infantry Reynell James Pack-Beresford (1872–1949) Hugh de la Poer Pack-Beresford (1874–1954) Algernon Dunbar Pack-Beresford (1875–1908) Political career He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Carlow at a by-election in 1862 and held the seat until standing down at the 1868 general election. Later life In later life, Pack-Beresford was",Q21544496,200,0
"Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet , of Pollok (31 October 1768 – 30 July 1844) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley from 10 December 1832 until resigning in 1834. The eldest son of Sir James Maxwell, 6th Baronet, of Pollok and Frances Colquhoun, daughter of Robert Colquhoun of St. Christopher's. Sir John, succeeded his father to the barony in 1785. He married Hannah or Anne Gardiner, daughter of Richard Gardiner, of Aldborough, Suffolk, and had issue, one son, Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet, and two daughters, Harriet Maxwell, who died in 1812, and Elizabeth Maxwell, wife of Archibald Stirling, Esq., of Keir, the parents of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, of Pollok. Death On Tuesday the 30th of July 1844, Sir John arose at his usual hour and complained of some mild chest pain. After breakfast as he proceeded through the lobby of Pollok House to take carriage with his friend and relative, Mr Wallace of Kelly his head suddenly drooped and he collapsed. He was immediately attended by his faithful body servant of forty-five years', Mr Archibald McDonald and died soon after. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Maxwell",Q7527921,197,0
"Bernard Kelly (1808 – 1 January 1887) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as the first Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the constituency of South Donegal in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was first elected in the 1885 general election and re-elected in the general election of 1886. He died in office in 1887. Kelly is buried at Ballyshannon, County Donegal where his headstone reads: Bernard Kelly, First Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Donegal died 1 January 1887 aged 78 years. This memorial was erected by his friends and countrymen, at home and abroad, in loving memory of his many personal and social virtues as also to commemorate his pure souled and noble services in the cause of self-government for his native land. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with ""D"" (part 2) External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Bernard Kelly",Q4893313,158,0
"John Spalding (1763 – 26 August 1815) was a Scottish MP in the British Parliament. He represented Wigtown Burghs 1796–1803. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in July 1797. He married Mary Anne Eden, daughter of Thomas Eden and Mariana Jones, on 19 December 1807; their son was John Eden Spalding. Mary Anne went on to marry Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux after his death. References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs",Q6258557,77,1
"Sydney Evershed (c. 1825 – 1903) was an English brewer and Liberal Party politician who represented Burton. Evershed's family came from Albury in Surrey. By 1860 he had moved to Burton-on-Trent, and became a Burton brewer. He lived at Stapenhill, where he built Albury House, named after his birthplace. Evershed was active in local politics and was one of the Improvement Commissioners, and one of the first councillors when Burton was incorporated as a borough in 1878. In 1886, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Burton which he held until 1900. He died at Marylebone in 1903. Evershed married Fanny Whitehead at Marylebone in 1856. Their sons Sydney, Wallis, Frank and Edward all played cricket for Derbyshire. Fanny died in 1904. In 1909 his brewery merged with Marston and Thompson to become Marston, Thompson and Evershed. References",Q7659915,139,0
"James Backwell Praed (30 May 1779 – 13 January 1837) was a British politician. Praed lived at Tyringham in Buckinghamshire. In 1807, he served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. At the 1835 UK general election, Praed stood in Buckinghamshire for the Conservative Party. He won the seat, and died in office in early 1837. References",Q26698876,55,0
"Sir Thomas John Burke, 3rd Baronet DL (7 June 1813 – 9 December 1875) was an Irish landowner and politician from County Galway who was an independent Liberal MP for County Galway (1847–65). Career Born at Marble Hill, he sat as an independent liberal Member of Parliament for the County Galway for eighteen years. His father, John Burke, was MP for the same constituency from 1830 to 1832. Sport Sometime a captain in the 1st Royals, he was best known for his love of sport, and his connection with horse racing is preserved through the Marble Hill Stakes annually run for at the Curragh. He has been described as ""a genial, handsome man, exceedingly popular with the country people, but by no means as prudent and business like as his father"". He married Lady Mary Nugent, daughter of Anthony Francis Nugent, 9th Earl of Westmeath. Arms References Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Burke",Q7529071,163,0
"Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 1st Baronet (25 April 1726 – 7 December 1806) was an English Judge Advocate-General. From his birth until 1792 he was known as Charles Gould . Life The elder son of King Gould of Westminster, who died deputy judge advocate in 1756, he was a scholar of Westminster School in 1739. He was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, 1743, where he attained a B.A. in 1747 and a M.A. in 1750. He was made an honorary D.C.L. in 1773. Gould was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1750, and in 1771 was appointed judge advocate-general. He came into the favour of George III, was made chancellor of Salisbury in 1772, and became chamberlain of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan. He sat as Member of Parliament for Brecon 1778–87, and for the Breconshire 1787–1806. He was knighted on 5 May 1779, and made a baronet on 30 October 1792, That same year he changed surname to Morgan on inheriting the Rhiwperra and Tredegar estates from the Morgan family. In 1802 he was made a privy counsellor. He was elected as a Bailiff to the board of the Bedford Level Corporation in 1781, a position he",Q16839995,200,0
"Sir Dominic John Corrigan, 1st Baronet (2 December 1802 – 1 February 1880), was an Irish physician, known for his original observations in heart disease. The abnormal ""collapsing"" pulse of aortic valve insufficiency is named Corrigan's pulse after him. Birth and education Corrigan was born in Thomas Street, Dublin, the son of a dealer in agricultural tools. He was educated in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, which then had a department for secular students apart from the ecclesiastical seminary. He was attracted to the study of medicine by the physician in attendance, and spent several years as an apprentice to the local doctor, Edward Talbot O'Kelly. Corrigan studied medicine in Dublin later transferring to Edinburgh Medical School where he received his degree as MD in August 1825. Career Corrigan returned to Dublin in 1825 and set up a private practice at 11 Ormond Street, as his practice grew he moved to 12 Bachelors Walk in 1832, and in 1837 to 4 Merrion Square West. Apart from his private practice, Corrigan held many public appointments; he was a physician to Maynooth College, the Sick Poor Institute, the Charitable Infirmary Jervis Street (1830–43) and the House of Industry Hospitals (1840–1866). His work with",Q1237588,200,1
"Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP PC (19 May 1812 – 6 October 1871) was an Irish peer, Member of Parliament, and archaeologist. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850. The son of Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1850. Along with George Petrie, Lord Dunraven is credited with ""laying the foundations of a sound school of archaeology"" in Ireland. Family Born on 19 May 1812, in Westminster, Dunraven was the eldest son of Windham Henry Quin (1782–1850), later the second earl, and of Caroline Wyndham, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire. From her father she inherited the Wyndham estate in Glamorganshire and also property in Gloucestershire. Dunraven's grandfather, Valentine Richard Quin (1752–1824), a staunch supporter of the union of Britain and Ireland, had been recommended by Lord Cornwallis for a peerage, and was created Baron Adare, of Adare, County Limerick, on 31 July 1800. He was further created Viscount Mount-Earl in 1816 and Earl of Dunraven in 1822. In 1815, Dunraven's father, Windham Henry Quin, assumed the additional name of Wyndham in right of",Q5346929,200,1
"Sir James Horner Haslett (January 1832 – 18 August 1905) was an Irish Conservative Party and then Unionist Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1886 and 1896 to 1905. Haslett was born in Knock, Belfast, the son of the Rev. Henry Haslett of Castlereagh, County Down and his wife Mary Wilson daughter of John Wilson, linen merchant of Drumcroon, Coleraine. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and became a chemist and druggist. He was an alderman, and a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) of Belfast. At the 1885 general election Haslett was elected Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He held the seat until 1886. He was Mayor of Belfast in 1887 and knighted in the same year. He was mayor again in 1888. He returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in January 1896 as MP for Belfast North. He was re-elected in 1900, and held the seat until his death in 1905 in Belfast, aged 73. Haslett married Annie Rea of London in 1877. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Haslett",Q6136249,192,1
Richard Joseph Devereux (1829–1883) was an Irish Liberal politician. Devereux was elected MP as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wexford Borough—a seat his brother John Thomas Devereux held between 1847 and 1859—in the 1865 general election and held the seat until he resigned in 1872. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Richard Devereux,Q26718798,58,0
"Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth , (18 December 1844 – 20 December 1939), known as Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet between 1872 and 1902, was a British Liberal politician and landowner. He was Under-Secretary of State for India and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone in 1886 and Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty under Gladstone and Lord Rosebery between 1892 and 1895. Background Shuttleworth was the son of the physician, civil servant and social reformer James Kay-Shuttleworth. His father, born James Kay, had assumed the additional surname of Shuttleworth on his marriage to Janet Shuttleworth, the only child and heiress of Robert Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, Lancashire. His father's brothers included the economist Joseph Kay and the Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Edward Kay. The Shuttleworth family had been landowners in Lancashire from medieval times. Tradition states they made their fortune from wool weaving. They supported the parliamentary side in the English Civil War. Sir James and Lady Shuttleworth parted company after five children and Shuttleworth was raised largely apart from his father. For some years in his youth he lived in Germany with his mother. On her death, in 1872,",Q7877756,200,1
"Francis Hurt (22 October 1803 at Cromford, Derbyshire – 1 April 1861 at Alderwasley, Derbyshire) was an English Tory politician who represented the constituency of South Derbyshire. Biography Hurt was born at Rock House Cromford, the son of Francis Edward Hurt and his wife Elizabeth Arkwright, the daughter of Richard Arkwright Junior. He played a first-class cricket match for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1840, being out for nought in both innings. Hurt became MP for Derbyshire South in 1837 but lost the seat in 1841. He lived at Alderwasley Hall which had been in the Hurt family since 1690. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1860, Deputy Lieutenant and J. P. In 1851, he rebuilt in stone an Observatory called Crich Stand on a limestone cliff overlooking Crich. This had originally been erected by his grandfather in 1788 at a cost of £210. This was rebuilt in 1923 as a Memorial Tower for those of the Sherwood Foresters regiment who died in battle, particularly in World War I. Hurt also built a wooden house on a height in the Alderwasley woods in 1857 which was used for picnics. This was on or near the site of the ""Earl's",Q5481370,200,0
"Colonel John James Mellor (12 August 1830 – 12 January 1916) was a British industrialist and Conservative politician. Early life Mellor was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and was educated privately. Business and military He entered business as a cotton manufacturer and became chairman of J & J J Mellor Limited of Bury and Brook Mills Limited of Heywood. He was also involved in railway administration, and was a director of the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway. For twenty-seven years he held a commission in the Volunteer Force, retiring as honorary colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers. Politics In 1892 he stood as Conservative candidate for the Radcliffe cum Farnworth constituency, but failed to be elected. Robert Leake, the sitting Liberal MP stood down at the next general election in 1895. Mellor was again selected as Conservative candidate, and was elected as Member of Parliament, benefitting from both a large swing to the Conservatives and the fact that Leake had a large personal vote. Mellor was only in the Commons for five years, deciding not to stand again. At the 1900 general election Radcliffe cum Farnworth was regained by the Liberals. In 1908, he invited",Q6241578,200,0
"George Frederick Young (1791 - 23 February 1870) was an English shipbuilder and politician. He was born the second son of Vice-Admiral William Young and his wife Ann Curling, the daughter of a shipbuilder. He became a leading partner in Curling, Young & Co. of London, constructors of East Indiamen and passenger steamships, and later developed interests in Lloyd's and the colonization of New Zealand. George was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth and North Shields 1832–1838. He was the first member elected for the newly created constituency in the 1832 general election, and lost his seat to Charles Edward Grey on 23 February 1838 as a result of a petition following the 1837 general election. He was later MP for Scarborough 1851-1852. His son Sir Frederick Young was a traveller and writer. References",Q5539488,134,0
"William Tipping JP MP JSA (1816 – 16 January 1897) was an English railway magnate and Conservative politician. Tipping was born in Liverpool to John Tipping, a Quaker corn merchant. William Tipping was educated at a private school in Tottenham. During his twenties he travelled into Palestine making drawings of archaeological sites, some of which were published in Punch ; he was elected to the Society of Antiquaries as a result. He became a director of the London and North Western Railway and in 1857 purchased Brasted Park, at Brasted, Kent, where he helped restore dilapidated cottages, paid for the widening of local roads, and supported local community institutions. He was persuaded by friends to stand for Parliament. At the 1868 general election, Tipping was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport with 4,498 votes, but he lost the seat at the 1874 general election. He was re-elected for Stockport in 1885, but did not defend his seat at the 1886 general election. By 1876 he was director of 13 railway companies; one of his responsibilities was to arrange the travel of the royal family. He was also appointed J. P. for Kent, Lancashire, and West Riding of Yorkshire.",Q8019430,200,1
"Charles Warren (19 March 1764 – 12 August 1829) was an English barrister and politician, judge and amateur cricketer. Life A son of Richard Warren, and nephew of John Warren, he was brother to John Warren the Dean of Bangor, physician Pelham Warren, and Frederick Warren; and uncle to John's children Sir Charles Warren, and mathematician John Warren. He was educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1780, matriculating in 1784, graduating B.A. in 1785, and finishing M.A. in 1788. He was a Fellow of Jesus College from 1786 to 1813. Entering Lincoln's Inn in 1781, he was called to the bar in 1790. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790. In 1792, Warren signed a declaration by the Society of the Friends of the People. He was called as a defence witness in the 1798 trial of Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet. Legal career An Old Bailey barrister, Warren also took up a bankruptcy commission. He was chancellor to the diocese of Bangor from 1797, for the rest of his life. Warren was made King's Counsel in 1816. He was appointed Chief Justice of Chester in 1819, and was",Q5083361,200,1
"Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace , PC, FRSE (1768 – 23 February 1844) was an English politician and peer. Early life Wallace was born at Brampton in 1768, the son of James Wallace (1729–1783), a barrister who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and as Attorney General to George III, and his wife, Elizabeth Simpson, the only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Simpson Esq., of Carleton Hall, Cumberland. He was educated at Eton College from 1777 to 1784. He then studied at Christ Church at Oxford University, graduating MA in 1790. Following the death of his father in 1783, he inherited (at age 15) Carleton Hall, which lies near Penrith, Cumbria. In 1793 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Andrew Dalzell, Henry Brougham and Alexander Fraser Tytler. He sold the Carleton estate in 1828 to John Cowper. He then acquired Featherstone Castle near Haltwhistle, Northumberland and remodelled it in the 1830s to a Gothic style. Political career Wallace was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Grampound from 1790 to 1796, for Penryn from 1796 to 1802, for Hindon from 1802 to 1806, for Shaftesbury from 1807 to 1812, for",Q7794844,200,1
"Matthew Lewis Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth (17 December 1840 – 21 August 1935) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician. He was Liberal MP for the Cardiganshire Division from 1895 until 1921. Background He was born at Tan-y-Bwlch, Cardiganshire, the only son of Matthew Davies of Tan-y-Bwlch. He was educated at Harrow School, but only stayed for a year. He married, in 1889, Mrs Mary Jenkins. She died in 1926. They had no children. Early political career He served as High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1875. He served as a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant in Cardiganshire. He was the Conservative candidate in the seat in 1885 but then went over to William Gladstone. In 1889, Vaughan Davies sought election as Conservative candidate for Llanfarian at the inaugural Cardiganshire County Council elections but was defeated by another Conservative, Morris Davies, by fifteen votes. Three years later, however, Davies stood as a Liberal candidate. This was an unexpected development as he had been a pillar of Conservatism in Cardiganshire for many years, and one factor may have been his marriage to Mrs Mary Jenkins, a wealthy widow from Swansea, in 1889. She was later elected president of the Aberystwyth",Q6791359,200,0
"Pryse Loveden Pryse (1 June 1774 – 4 January 1849) of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire and Buscot Park, Berkshire was a British Lord Lieutenant and Member of Parliament for Cardigan Boroughs from 1818 until his death in 1849. Early life and career He was born Pryse Loveden, and was the son of Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park, who was also a Member of Parliament, and Margaret Pryse, daughter of Lewis Pryse of Woodstock and Gogerddan. Through his mother, he inherited an estate of 30,000 acres in upland Cardiganshire. Possession of Gogerddan, which dominated the borough of Aberystwyth, gave him a strong claim to a parliamentary seat. Upon inheriting the estate he adopted the name Pryse Loveden Pryse, and was usually referred to in later life as Pryse Pryse. In 1794 Pryse was commissioned as an Ensign into the Berkshire Militia (of which his father was the lieutenant-colonel) and served as High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1799. Parliamentary career 1818-32 The Gogerddan interest had for generations played a prominent part in the politics of Cardiganshire, and the borough of Aberystwyth was regarded as being controlled by Gogerddan, in contrast to the county town of Cardigan which fell under the influence of the",Q19931188,200,0
"John Miller of Leithen FRSE MICE DL (26 July 1805 – 8 May 1883) was a Scottish civil engineer and Liberal Party politician. Together with Thomas Grainger, he formed the influential engineering firm Grainger and Miller, specialising in railway viaducts. Life Miller was born in Ayr on 26 July 1805, the son of Margaret Caldwell and James Miller, a wright and builder. He attended Ayr Academy and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh going on to be a legal apprentice with A Murdoch Esq, a lawyer in Ayr. His interests then turned from law to engineering. In 1825 he went into partnership with Thomas Grainger. The partnership was responsible for many of Scotland's railway projects. Miller took the lead role in surveying the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. He designed many viaducts, including the Lugar Viaduct, Cumnock and the Ballochmyle Viaduct, Mauchline. Miller designed and led the construction of the Almond Valley Viaduct to carry the Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line which was completed in 1842. The viaduct is 1.5 miles long with 36 masonry arches and is now Category A listed. Miller designed the route to keep the railway as level over as much of the route as was",Q6248786,200,0
"John Fane (9 July 1775 – 4 October 1850), of Wormsley nr. Watlington, Oxfordshire, was a British Tory politician. Background A member of the Fane family headed by the Earl of Westmorland, Fane was the son of John Fane, of Wormsley, Oxfordshire, and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield. Political career Fane succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in 1824, a seat he held until 1831. He also served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1835. An anti-Catholic, he generally supported the Tory line. Family Fane married Elizabeth, daughter of William Lowndes-Stone-Norton, in 1801. They had several children, including his heir John Fane, Reverend Frederick Adrian Scrope Fane (1810–1894) and George Augustus Scrope Fane (1817–1860). He died in October 1850. His wife survived him by 15 years and died in November 1865. References External links Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [usurped] Darryl Lundy's thePeerage.com page Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Fane",Q6232699,161,0
"Sir Robert Paterson Houston, 1st Baronet (31 May 1853 – 14 April 1926) was a British Conservative Party politician and shipowner. He was born to a maritime engineer from Renfrewshire, and, after an apprenticeship in Liverpool, Houston also became an engineer. In 1877 he bought a share in a packet steamer with his inheritance, using the profits to start up his own management company in 1880, R.P. Houston & Company. Clan Line acquired R.P. Houston & Company in 1918. In 1892 he was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Toxteth, resigning on 26 April 1924 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was created a Baronet , of West Toxteth in the City of Liverpool, in 1922. In 1924 he married Lucy, Lady Byron, widow of the 9th baron, who then became Lady Houston. Research published in 2020 outlined her seven-year pursuit of him. In his will, he left his wife the bulk of his fortune. When he died on his steam yacht Liberty on 14 April 1926, she became the second richest woman in England. Using Houston's money his widow funded the first flight over Mount Everest and the development of the later-to-be-famous Supermarine",Q7528797,200,0
"Arthur French, 1st Baron de Freyne and de Freyne (1786 – 29 September 1856) was an Anglo-Irish peer and member of parliament. The French family were of French descent and were previously named de Freyne. De Freyne was the eldest son of Arthur French of Frenchpark and his wife Margaret Costello of Edmondstown. The French family had been major landowners in County Sligo and County Roscommon for many years. He was elected to Parliament for his father's old constituency of Roscommon in 1821, a seat he held until 1832. In 1839 he was raised to the peerage as Baron de Freyne , of Artagh in the County of Roscommon, with remainder to heirs male. Twelve years later, in 1851, he was made Baron de Freyne , of Coolavin in the County of Sligo, with a special remainder to his three younger brothers John, Charles and Fitzstephen. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Roscommon from 1855 until his death the following year. Lord de Freyne married Mary (d. 7 September 1843), daughter of Christopher McDermott, in 1818, but the marriage was childless. He died on 29 September 1856 when the barony of 1839 became extinct. However, he was succeeded",Q4798751,200,0
"Isaac Butt (6 September 1813 – 5 May 1879) was an Irish barrister, editor, politician, Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, economist and the founder and first leader of a number of Irish nationalist parties and organisations. He was a leader in the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society in 1836, the Home Government Association in 1870, and the Home Rule League in 1873. Colin W. Reid argues that Home Rule was the mechanism Butt proposed to bind Ireland to Great Britain. It would end the ambiguities of the Act of Union of 1800. He portrayed a federalised United Kingdom, which would have weakened Irish exceptionalism within a broader British context. Butt was representative of a constructive national unionism. As an economist, he made significant contributions regarding the potential resource mobilisation and distribution aspects of protection, and analysed deficiencies in the Irish economy such as sparse employment, low productivity, and misallocation of land. He dissented from the established Ricardian theories and favoured some welfare state concepts. As editor he made the Dublin University Magazine a leading Irish journal of politics and literature. Early life Butt was born in 1813 in Glenfin, a district bordering the Finn",Q1141134,200,1
"William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire , (27 April 1808 – 21 December 1891), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1831 and 1834 and Earl of Burlington between 1834 and 1858, was a British landowner, benefactor, nobleman, and politician. Early life Cavendish was the son of William Cavendish (1783–1812) and the Honourable Louisa O'Callaghan (d. 1863). His father was the eldest son of Lord George Cavendish (later created, in 1831, the 1st Earl of Burlington, by the second creation), third son of the 4th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Charlotte Boyle, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork. His mother was the daughter of the 1st Baron Lismore. He was educated at Eton and the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), attaining the position of Second Wrangler and the Smith's Prize for mathematics. He became known by the courtesy title Lord Cavendish of Keighley in 1831 when the earldom of Burlington was revived in favour of his grandfather. Career Cavendish was returned to parliament as the MP for Cambridge University in 1829, a seat he held until July 1831, when he was returned for Malton. He only sat for Malton until September of the same year",Q337626,200,0
"Donald Nicoll (25 April 1820 – 6 September 1891) was a British Liberal and Radical politician, businessman, inventor and author. Inventions Born in 1820, Nicoll started his career in trade, becoming the owner of sanitary works, as well as an inventor and maker of patented appliances for the interception and deodorization of sewage, and the filtration of water. Further, he developed improvements to fire escapes, fog signals for vessels, and electric and telegraph conductors. In 1872, and in conjunction with Robert Sabine, ten miles of underground telegraph conductors were laid on a system he had secured a patent for. At the time of his death in 1891, he was also involved in bringing out a patent for paving roadways with hard Australian jarrah-wood, which he predicted to be cheap, clean and safe for horses. Political career Nicoll first stood for election was a Radical candidate at Frome at a by-election in 1854—caused by the death of the sitting Whig Robert Edward Boyle. However, Nicoll was defeated by Boyle's son and the Whig candidate, Richard, by 52 votes. At another by-election in 1856—caused by the succession of Richard Boyle to 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery—Nicoll sought the seat once more.",Q25893740,200,0
"George Matthew Fortescue (21 May 1791 – 24 January 1877) was a British military officer and Whig politician, who served as MP for Hindon 1826–1831. Fortescue was the son of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue and his wife Hester Grenville, daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville. In the army, Fortescue served in India and reached the rank of captain. Due to ill health, he took half-pay in 1816. Fortescue was elected unopposed as one of the two MPs for Hindon in the 1826 and 1830 elections. He voted for Lord John Russell's first Reform Bill in March 1831 (which would have abolished the constituency of Hindon if it had passed), and stood down at the 1831 election which followed the bill's defeat. He was buried at Boconnoc Church. Family On 19 February 1833, he married Lady Louisa Elizabeth Ryder, daughter of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby. They had four sons and four daughters: Louisa Susan Anne Fortescue (1833–1864), married William Westby Moore George Grenville Fortescue (1835–1856) Harriet Eleanor Fortescue (1836–1924), married Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore Hugh Granville Fortescue (1838–1875), Captain in the Coldstream Guards Mary Fortescue (1840–1925), married Rev. Vernon Harcourt Aldham Elizabeth Frances Fortescue (1843–) Cyril Dudley Fortescue",Q24568594,200,0
"Sir Henry Singer Keating (13 January 1804 – 1 October 1888) was a British lawyer and politician. The son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, he attended Trinity College Dublin and became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, and a Queen's Counsel in 1849. He was Member of Parliament for Reading from 1852 until 1860 and as Solicitor-General for England from 1857 to 1858 and in 1859. He was knighted in 1857. He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859 to 1875. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1875, entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the Empire. Arms References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Henry Keating",Q15039950,130,0
"Sir William Mordaunt Edward Milner, 5th Baronet (20 June 1820 – 12 February 1867) was a Whig politician. Born and baptised in Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, Milner was the son of William Mordaunt Sturt Milner and Harriet Elizabeth née Cavendish-Bentinck, daughter of Lord Edward Bentinck and Elizabeth Cumberland. He married Lady Georgiana Anne Lumley—daughter of Frederick Lumley-Savile and Charlotte Mary Beresford—in 1844, and they had at least seven children: Edith Harriet (1845–1921); Evelyn Selina ( c. 1847 –1900); William Mordaunt (1848–1880); Frederick George (1849–1931); Granville Henry (1852–1911); Dudley Francis (1854–1882); and Edward Carolus (1858–1918). Milner was first elected Whig MP for City of York at a by-election in 1848—caused by the death of Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke—and held the seat until 1857, when he did not seek re-election. Milner succeeded to the Baronetcy of Nun Appleton Hall on 24 March 1855 upon the death of William Mordaunt Sturt Milner. Upon his own death in 1867, the title was inherited by William Mordaunt Milner. Bird Collection William Milner put together an important collection of stuffed British Birds, including a Great Auk. He also wrote a 'Nomenclature of British Birds'. The collection was loaned to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society in 1877",Q26695977,200,1
"Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale (11 April 1829 – 13 February 1907), was a British industrialist and Liberal politician. Background and education Allendale was the eldest son of Thomas Beaumont and his wife Henrietta Jane Emma, daughter of John Atkinson, and was educated at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge. Business and political career Allendale was the owner of major estates and mines in Northumberland and also sat as Member of Parliament for Northumberland South from 1852 to 1885 and for Tyneside from 1886 to 1892. In 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Allendale , of Allendale and Hexham in the County of Northumberland. Family Lord Allendale married firstly Lady Margaret Anne, daughter of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, and his wife the Honourable Harriet, daughter of George Canning, in 1856. They had three sons and three daughters. Their youngest son the Honourable Hubert Beaumont was Liberal Member of Parliament for Eastbourne. After his first wife's death in 1888 Allendale married secondly Edith Althea, daughter of Lieutenant-General Henry Meade-Hamilton and widow of Major-General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, in 1891. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Allendale died in February 1907, aged 77, and",Q7983008,200,0
"Theodore Henry Broadhead (3 December 1767 – 12 December 1820) was an English army officer and politician. Life The son of Theodore Henry Broadhead the elder, whose original surname was Brinckman , and his wife Mary Bingley, he was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1784, graduating in B.A. 1788, and M.A.in 1791. He became a cornet in the 1st Life Guards in 1790, and continued in a number of militia posts. From 1807 he lived in Windsor. His residence, ""Holly Grove"", had been designed by Thomas Sandby. It was later known as ""Forest Lodge"", and was absorbed into Windsor Great Park. Broadhead entered politics as Member of Parliament for Wareham in 1812, holding the seat until 1818. He is not known to have contributed to debates. He returned as M.P. for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight in 1820, the year of his death. Family The Brinckmans were from Hanover, and Theodore Brinckman who moved to Great Britain in the time of George I was grandfather to Theodore Henry Broadhead the elder (1714–1810). The family became landowners in Yorkshire when John Richard Brinckman, father of Theodore Henry the elder, married Anne Bingley, heiress to the Broadhead",Q20829505,200,0
"Patrick Francis Robertson (24 August 1807 – 20 January 1885) was a British businessman and a Liberal Conservative MP for Hastings, East Sussex, England. Early life Patrick Francis Robertson was born on 24 August 1807 in Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland, the oldest son of Daniel Robertson (1755 - 1817) and Isabella Small (1774 - 1811). His father was a professor of Oriental Languages at St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, Scotland from 1809 - 1817. His maternal grandfather was Alexander Small, Minister of Newtyle and Kilconquhar, Scotland. The family was a member of the Smalls of Dirnanean. Robertson's mother died when he was four. Robertson and his two younger siblings were primarily raised by a maternal aunt, Cecilia Small, after his mother's death. Business career Robertson obtained his formal education at the University of St. Andrews. After graduating, Robertson joined other members of his extended family in the East India and China trade, becoming a wealthy man. He lived for a time in Canton, China. Positions as a sub-governor for the London Assurance Corporation, department-chairman of the Bank of Egypt, and director of the Oriental Bank and the Ceylon Co, eventually followed for Robertson. Around Hastings, Robertson was known for his real",Q7146523,200,0
"Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet , FRSE (12 May 1791 – 6 June 1865) was a Scottish landowner and politician. Life Maxwell was born at Pollok House, Renfrewshire on 12 May 1791 the son of Hannah Anne Gardiner and her husband, Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet. He was educated at Westminster School in London. He then studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. He was a member of Parliament for Renfrewshire between the years of 1818 and 1830. Later he represented Lanarkshire, between the years of 1832 and 1837. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1844 on the death of his father. In 1854 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Makdougall Brisbane. He was influential in the restoration of Haggs Castle in 1860. In 1864 he was one of the main funders behind a new church in Glasgow which was later known as the Maxwell Church . Family In 1839 he married Lady Matilda Harriet Bruce (d. 1857). They did not have children. References",Q18534207,177,1
"William Stephen Poyntz (20 January 1770 – 8 April 1840) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1800 and 1837. Early life Poyntz was the son of William Poyntz of Midgham (d.1809) by his wife Isabella (d.1805), daughter and co-heir of Kellond Courtenay of Painsford in Devon. His father, the eldest son of the courtier and diplomat Stephen Poyntz, was a brother of Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer, and hence William Stephen Poyntz's paternal first cousins were George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough. His maternal first cousins and brothers-in law (through the marriages of his sisters Isabella and Carolina) were Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork, and Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1787. Career In June 1800, Poyntz was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans and held the seat until the 1807 general election. He was next elected as MP for Callington at a by-election in April 1810, and held the seat until the 1818 general election. In February 1823 he was elected at a by-election as MP for Chichester, and held the",Q8018781,200,0
"Sir Thomas Sutton, 1st Baronet (c.1755–1813) was an English militia commander and politician, Member of Parliament for Surrey in 1812–13. Life He was the son of Thomas Sutton (died 1789) of Molesey, Surrey, and his wife Jane Hankey, daughter of Alderman Thomas Hankey. He matriculated in 1773 at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1777, M.A. in 1780. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1782. The Trial of Mrs. Henrietta Arabin (1786), on the King's Bench case brought by William St Julien Arabin against his wife for adultery with Sutton, describes him as a major in the Horse Guards Regiment. Sutton was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1796–7, and commissioned with the rank of major in the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia in 1797; and supported the Pitt administration against a Whig petition at a Surrey county meeting that year. At the beginning of the 19th century, he was jointly lord of the manor of East Molesey, with Sir Beaumont Hotham, his uncle by marriage to Susanna Hankey, daughter of Alderman Hankey and sister of Jane Hankey. Sutton rose to be militia lieutenant-colonel in 1800. He was created a baronet on 5 March, 1806. Mary Berry",Q25927593,200,0
"Richard Pilkington (17 January 1841 – 12 March 1908) was a British Conservative politician and member of the Pilkington glass-manufacturing family. He was the second son of Richard Pilkington of Windle Hall near St Helens, Lancashire. In 1858/59 he became a partner in the family glassworks. In 1863 he married Louisa Sinclair and in 1885 he bought the Rainford Hall estate, commissioning James Medland Taylor to build a new house. The building is in the Jacobethan style, of red brick with sandstone dressings. He became a member of St Helens Borough Council, holding the office of mayor in 1881, 1896, 1897 and 1898. By this time he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel, in the Volunteer Force and commanded a battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment. In December 1898 he was selected as the Conservative candidate for a by-election in the Newton constituency. He had previously been considered a Liberal Unionist. As the only candidate nominated he was elected unopposed on 16 January 1899. Pilkington held his seat at the subsequent general election in 1900, but was defeated in 1906 by a Labour candidate. Richard Pilkington died on 12 March 1908, aged 67. A condition in his will forbade the inheritors",Q7328434,200,0
"Henry Jeffreys Winnington (died 25 August 1873) was a British politician. Winnington lived at Stanford Court in Worcestershire. He stood in the 1833 West Worcestershire by-election for the Whigs, succeeding his second cousin as MP for the constituency. In Parliament, he argued in favour of shorter Parliamentary terms. He retired at the 1841 UK general election. Winnington's brother was the Member of Parliament for Bewdley. References",Q15815164,66,0
"George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck PC JP (9 July 1821 – 9 April 1891), known as George Bentinck and scored in cricket as GAFC Bentinck , was a British barrister, Conservative politician, and cricketer. A member of parliament from 1859 to 1891, he served under Benjamin Disraeli as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1874 to 1875 and as Judge Advocate General from 1875 to 1880. In cricket, he batted for Marylebone Cricket Club in nine games between 1840 and 1846, as well as appearing once for the Cambridge University cricket team and again for a first-class Invitational XI match. Early life Cavendish-Bentinck was born in Westminster, Middlesex, in 1821, the only son of Major-General Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (1781–1828), fourth son of Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809). His mother was Mary Lowther (d. 1863), a daughter of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757–1844), a Tory politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Appleby, Carlisle, Cumberland, and Rutland. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Westminster School, he played for the school's First XI cricket team and faced the MCC for the first time in June 1837, scoring",Q600636,200,0
"Humphrey St John-Mildmay (1794–1853) was an English merchant banker and politician, a partner with Baring Brothers. Life St John-Mildmay joined the Coldstream Guards and served as a captain in the Peninsular War. After marrying Anne Baring, daughter of Alexander Baring in 1823 he was offered a partnership in the family bank. They had one child, Humphrey Francis St John-Mildmay (1825–1866) St John-Mildmay was also appointed a Director of the Bank of England. He was Conservative MP for Southampton, Hampshire. He spoke and voted against the Slave Trade Suppression Bill in 1843. He lived at Mount Clare, Roehampton from 1830–32. References",Q16065824,100,0
"Henry Richard Farquharson (1857 – 19 April 1895) was an English landowner and Conservative politician. Farquharson was born at Brighton and became the owner of a large estate at Eastbury House, Tarrant Gunville (near Blandford Forum in Dorset). He was a keen breeder of Newfoundland dogs and had a pack of one hundred and twenty five. He imported them through the port of Poole, Dorset and had a Crufts winner. He was elected at the 1885 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dorset, and held the seat until his death. In 1891, an unnamed West of England M.P., now believed to have been Henry Richard Farquharson, was mentioned in a newspaper article as claiming that Jack the Ripper, the infamous murderer in the impoverished Whitechapel District in the East End of London, was the son of a surgeon and that he committed suicide after he had committed murder of Mary Jane Kelly on the night of 9 November 1888. It is believed that the reference was to Montague John Druitt, a fellow West County man, who committed suicide at the end of November 1888 and whose body was retrieved from the Thames at Chiswick a month later.",Q5727518,200,0
"Alexander William Kinglake (5 August 1809 – 2 January 1891) was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which, in 1856, he abandoned to devote himself to literature and public life. His first literary venture was Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East (London: J. Ollivier, 1844), a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. Elliot Warburton said it evoked ""the East itself in vital actual reality"" and it was instantly successful. However, his magnum opus was The Invasion of Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan , in 8 volumes, published from 1863 to 1887 by Blackwood, Edinburgh, one of the most effective works of its class. The History, which Geoffrey Bocca describes as a book ""by which no intelligent man can fail immediately to be fascinated, no matter to what",Q334080,200,0
"Robert Hollond (1808–1877) was an English balloonist, lawyer, and politician. He funded and then took part in establishing a distance ballooning record with Thomas Monck Mason and Charles Green. He later served as a Whig politician representing the constituency of Hastings. Biography Hollond was born in 1808 to William Hollond who was a wealthy civil servant in Bengal. Hollond studied law at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge and despite his enthusiasm for ballooning he had become a lawyer by 1834. Hollond channelled his ballooning interest into funding a record balloon attempt in 1836 by the experienced aeronaut, Charles Green. Charles Green, a professional balloonist and aeronaut planned the record attempt which set out from Vauxhall Gardens in London on 7 November 1836 at 1:30 p.m. Hollond, Green and Thomas Monck Mason travelled 500 miles in eighteen hours. In 1836, Thomas Monck Mason wrote an Account of the Late æronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg which detailed the journey. This book was dedicated to Hollond. The commemorative painting ( illustration, left ) that shows a consultation before the journey is by John Hollins who later became an Associate of the Royal Academy. The painting portrays, from left to right, Walter Prideaux",Q7345572,200,1
"William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS ( ; 11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial patent that affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. He published The Pencil of Nature (1844–1846), which was illustrated with original salted paper prints from his calotype negatives and made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York. A polymath, Talbot was elected to the Royal Society in 1831 for his work on the integral calculus, and researched in optics, chemistry, electricity and other subjects such as etymology, the decipherment of cuneiform, and ancient history. Early life Talbot was born in Melbury House in Dorset and was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, and of Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangways, daughter of",Q299565,200,1
"Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley , FRS (25 February 1795 – 12 February 1835), styled Lord Clifton until 1831, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British peer and politician. Background Darnley was the second but eldest surviving son of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley, and Elizabeth Brownlow, 3rd daughter of the Rt Hon. William Brownlow. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 22 October 1812, where he took degrees of Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1816, proceeding Master of Arts (MA) in 1819. Political career Darnley was returned to the House of Commons representing Canterbury in 1818, a seat he held until 1830 for the Whig Party. In 1831 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Meath between 1831 and 1835, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1833. Marriage and children In 1825 he married the Hon. Emma Jane Parnell, a daughter of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, by whom he had three sons and two daughters: John Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley (1827–1896) Rev. Hon. Edward Vesey Bligh",Q5341921,200,1
"Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736–1819) MP JP FSA FRS, was a British Whig Member of Parliament, topographer and author. Background Wyndham was born on 4 June 1736, the eldest surviving son of Henry Wyndham of St Edmund's College, Salisbury, and his wife Arundel Penruddocke, daughter of Thomas Penruddocke of Compton Chamberlayne. Colonel Wadham Wyndham was his younger brother and the distinguished judge Sir Wadham Wyndham was his great-great-grandfather. He was educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 6 February 1777 and a fellow of the Royal Society on 9 January 1783. Politics The Wyndhams of the college held great influence in Salisbury, and Wyndham was elected a freeman of the city on 15 March 1761, was Mayor of Salisbury in 1770–1, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1772. In 1794 he commanded a troop of cavalry raised in Salisbury. In 1795 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wiltshire. He sat as a Whig in the family tradition until 1812, but rarely attended Parliament. The Whig statesman, William Windham and Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, were his third cousins. Publications By inclination he was more of",Q5726838,200,1
"Sir Joseph Leigh (1841 – 22 September 1908) was a British Liberal Party politician and cotton spinner. Background He was the eldest son of Thomas Leigh, cotton spinner at Meadow Mill in Stockport. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School. He married in 1868, Alice Ann Adamson. They had four sons and two daughters. He was knighted in 1894. He was also made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, in France. Civic career He was a member, latterly an Alderman of the Borough of Stockport Council for 29 years. He served as the borough's Mayor from 1885 to 1889. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Stockport. He was made an Honourable Freeman of the Borough of Stockport. He was Chairman and promoter of Stockport Technical School. He was a Director of the Manchester Ship Canal. Political career At parliamentary elections he contested, as a Liberal party candidate, the dual member seat of Stockport in 1885, 1886, 1892, 1895 and 1900. He sat as Liberal MP for Stockport from 1892 to 1895 and from 1900 to 1906. He stood down at the General Election of January 1906. He did not stand for parliament again.",Q16031744,200,0
"James Du Pré (1778–1870), of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician. He was the son of Josias Du Pre (1721-1780), former Governor of Madras and educated at Eton College (1791) and Christ Church, Oxford (1796-1800). He succeeded his father to Wilton Park in 1780. Du Pré was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain (and then the Parliament of the United Kingdom) for Gatton 29 Apr. 1800–1802, for Aylesbury 1802–1804 and for Chichester 1807–1812. He was selected High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for 1825–26. He married in 1801 Madelina, the daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 4th Bt., of Monreith, Wigtown, a niece of the Duchess of Gordon. They had 3 sons and 8 daughters, one of whom was the mother to the well-known politician Henry Labouchère. References",Q16065638,130,0
"Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician. He popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinarian system. Early life Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow on 1785 as first son from Capt. Nicholas Aylward Vigors which served in 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment and, his first wife, Catherine Vigors, daughter of Solomon Richards of Solsborough. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in November 1803 before he was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in November 1806. Without completing his studies, he served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809 to 1811 and wounded in Battle of Barossa on 5 March 1811. Though, he haven't completed his studies yet, he still published ""An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence"" in London at 1810. He then returned to Oxford to continued his studies and achieved his Bachelor of Arts on 1817 and Master of Arts on 1818. He practiced as a barrister and became a Doctor of Civil Law in 1832. Zoology Vigors was a co-founder of the Zoological Society of London in 1826, and its first secretary until 1833. In that year, he founded what became the Royal",Q332479,200,1
"Thomas Coote (1850 – 24 October 1939 at Hythe, Kent) was an English coal merchant and Liberal politician. Coote was born at Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, the son of Thomas Coote of St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He was educated privately and became a coal merchant in the firm of Coote & Son, Coal Merchants, of St Ives. In the 1885 general election, Coote was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon but lost the seat in the 1886 general election. He had stood as the Liberal candidate in the Cambridgeshire by-election, 21 March 1884. He was a member of the Reform Club and an original member of the National Liberal Club. Coote married in 1878, Elizabeth Pauline Day. They lived at Ambury House, Huntingdon. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Coote",Q7788606,131,0
"William David Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield, 3rd Earl of Mansfield , KT, DL (21 February 1806 – 1 August 1898) was a British Conservative politician. The son of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, and Frederica Markham, daughter of William Markham, Archbishop of York, he succeeded his father in 1840 to the Earldom of Mansfield (1792 creation), and grandmother, Louisa Murray, 2nd Countess of Mansfield, in 1843 as Earl of Mansfield (1776 creation). Murray was born in 56 Portland Place (later renumbered to 37) named Mansfield House, London. The London home of his parents. The Murrays also owned Kenwood House Murray was Tory Member of Parliament for Aldborough in 1830; for Woodstock in 1831; for Norwich from 1832 to 1837, and for Perthshire from 1837 to 1840. He served as a Lord of the Treasury in Sir Robert Peel's Administration from 1834 to 1835. Murray was appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1852, 1858 and 1859. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Stirlingshire Militia from 1828 to 1855, Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 1852, hereditary keeper of Scone Palace, and Senior Member of the Carlton Club. He was appointed a Knight",Q7614951,200,0
"Lieutenant Colonel Edward Akroyd (1810–1887), English manufacturer, was born into a textile manufacturing family in 1810, and when he died in 1887, he still owned the family firm. He inherited ""James Akroyd & Sons Ltd."" from his father in 1847, and he became the owner of one of the country's largest worsted manufacturers. He established mills at Haley Hill in Halifax and then at Copley, two miles or so to the south. He proved to be a very successful businessman, and his firm made him very prosperous. At Haley Hill, not far from his mills, he extended a large mansion, Bankfield, and then went to live there. Akroyd was well read and concerned about the fortunes of Halifax and the terrible social conditions that grew out of the industrial revolution. He funded and supported a local allotment society and many institutions for the working classes, a school for child labourers, a workers' pension scheme, several churches (he was a staunch Anglican) and a cemetery. He founded a Working Men's College, the first outside London. In the mid-1850s, he helped found the Yorkshire Penny Bank (to encourage workers to save), and he worked closely with the Halifax Permanent Building Society (later",Q5341520,200,0
"Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly (13 November 1816 – 20 May 1858), styled Viscount Northland between 1840 and 1858, was an Irish peer and member of parliament. Early life Knox was born on 13 November 1816 as the eldest son of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly and his wife Mary Juliana Stuart, Among his siblings were William Knox, Lady Mary Stuart Knox (wife of John Page Reade), Lady Louisa Juliana Knox (wife of Henry Alexander), and Lady Juliana Caroline Frances Knox (wife of Gen. Sir Edward Forestier-Walker). His paternal grandparents were Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly, and the Hon. Diana Jane Pery (a daughter of the 1st Viscount Pery). His maternal grandparents were the Most Reverend William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh, and the former Sophia Margaret Penn (the daughter of Thomas Penn and granddaughter of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania). He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Career He succeeded his father to represent Dungannon as a Member of Parliament between 9 June 1838 and 3 February 1851, when he resigned through the position of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds due to ill health. He was succeeded by his younger brother, William. He succeeded to the",Q7791585,200,0
"Richard William Blackwood Ker (30 November 1850 – 19 June 1942) was an Irish landowner and MP. Biography He was the son of David Stewart Ker and his wife, Anna Dorothea Blackwood. He was a captain in the 1st Royal Dragoons. He inherited his father's estates of Montalto and Portavo at Ballynahinch on the death of his elder brother, David Alfred Ker. He was appointed Sheriff of County Down for 1880–81 and was the Member of Parliament for County Down, 1884–1885 and for East Down, 1885–1890. He has been described as 'a substantial landowner from Ballynahinch.' He married Edith Louisa, the daughter of William Rose of Warwickshire and had at least one son, who was an officer in the army. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Ker ""Ker, Capt. Richard William Blackwood"" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 124 – via Wikisource.",Q7329984,154,0
"Sir Charles Tilston Bright (8 June 1832 – 3 May 1888) was a British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858, for which work he was knighted. Life Born on 8 June 1832 in Wanstead, Essex, Bright was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. At fifteen, he became a clerk for the Electric Telegraph Company and as his talent for electrical engineering became evident, he was appointed engineer to the Magnetic Telegraph Company in 1852. In that role he supervised the laying of lines in the British Isles, including in 1853 the first cable between Scotland and Ireland, from Portpatrick to Donaghadee, when he was just 21. This work, and the successful laying of other submarine cables, suggested to others that it might be possible to lay a cable across the Atlantic from Ireland to North America. Joining with Cyrus West Field and John Watkins Brett, who controlled the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, Bright helped organise the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856 to develop a transatlantic cable, with himself as engineer-in-chief; Wildman Whitehouse soon joined them as chief electrician. Samuel Canning supported the effort on board HMS Agamemnon . After two",Q613322,200,0
"Sir Robert William Newman, 1st Baronet (18 August 1776 – 24 January 1848) was a British Whig politician. He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bletchingley at a by-election in December 1812. He held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Exeter, and held the seat until the 1826 general election, which he did not contest. He was created a baronet of Stokeley and of Mamhead in the County of Devon in 1836. He lived at Mamhead House, which he had built in the 1820s, employing Anthony Salvin as architect. He died, aged 71, and was succeeded by Sir Robert Lydston Newman, 2nd Baronet, who was killed in action at the battle of Inkerman. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Newman",Q7528825,136,0
"Handel Cossham (31 March 1824 – 23 April 1890) was a British colliery owner, lay preacher and Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1890. Early life Cossham was born in High Street, Thornbury, in a house where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also born. His father Jesse Cossham, a carpenter and builder, named his son after the composer of Messiah , George Frederic Handel. A plaque at his birthplace describes him as a ""non-conformist Preacher, Industrialist, Geologist, Politician, Educationalist and Public Benefactor"". Career Cossham began his involvement in the coal industry in 1845 at Yate colliery. In 1848 he married Elizabeth Wethered and through a partnership with her family, began Parkfield Colliery at Pucklechurch in 1851. As a caring employer, Cossham also built houses and a school for his colliery workers at Parkfield. The partnership opened several other coal pits, initially under the name of Cossham and Wethered Ltd and from 1867, the Kingswood Coal and Iron Company Ltd. The business came under control of Handel Cossham and Charles S. Wills after 1879 when the Kingswood and Parkfield Colliery Company Ltd was formed. In 1862, Handel Cossham",Q5647365,200,1
"Sir John Boughey, 2nd Baronet (1 May 1784 – 27 June 1823), of Betley Court, Staffordshire, was an English Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency) in 1812–1818 and Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency) in 1820 – 27 June 1823. He was Captain-Commandant of the Betley and Audley Volunteers and was later commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Southern Regiment, Staffordshire Local Militia. In December 1822, shortly before his death, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society References",Q21165784,80,1
"Isaac Hawkins Browne , FRS (7 December 1745 – 30 May 1818) was a British Tory politician, industrialist, essayist, and a lord of the manor of Badger, Shropshire. Family and education He was the only son of the poet Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760) and his wife, Jane, née Trimnell. He was educated at Westminster School and Hertford College, Oxford, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in July 1770. Employer and squire In 1774, Browne bought the manor of Badger from its absentee owner, Clement Kynnersley of Loxley, near Uttoxeter: the house was at that time rented to an ironmaster, William Ferriday. He also owned property at Malinslee in Dawley, Shropshire, now part of the town of Telford, which included Old Park. In 1790, he opened coal mines on his estate and leased enough land in Old Park to enable Thomas Botfield to build the Old Park ironworks there. Ferriday and Botfield had long been business partners in the Dawley and Madeley areas, for example in the Lightmoor Coalworks. Browne mixed and made money in the world of Industrial Revolution business men, while seeking access to the world of politics dominated by the landed gentry. Badger gave him",Q6076463,200,1
"Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston PC FRCP (17 July 1840 – 31 January 1913) was a British physician and politician. Early life and education He was born to Balthazar Foster and his wife Marian ( née Green), in Cambridge on 17 July 1840. In 1847 the family moved to Ireland, and Foster was educated at Drogheda Grammar School. In 1857 Foster attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied medicine. After graduation he became Prolector of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, but abandoned hopes of a medical career, even going as far as to apply for a naval commission. In 1860, however, he was appointed Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham (a predecessor college of Birmingham University), later being appointed Professor of Anatomy. In 1864 he obtained his MD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. That same year, he married Emily Martha Sargant. Medical career On the merger of Queen's and Sydenham colleges in 1868 he was appointed Professor of Medicine, a position he held until 1892. He became a doctor at Birmingham General Hospital, where he was galvanized by what he described as a ""new atmosphere of modern thought and scientific enterprise"" compared to",Q7964864,200,1
"Sir Christopher Robinson (1766–1833), admiralty lawyer, and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1828 to 1833. Life Born in 1766, he was son of Dr. Christopher Robinson, rector of Albury, Oxfordshire, and Wytham, Berkshire, who died at Albury on 24 January 1802. He matriculated from University College, Oxford, on 16 December 1782, but migrated in 1783 to Magdalen College, where he was a demy from 1783 to 1799. He graduated B.A. 14 June 1786, M.A. 6 May 1789, and D.C.L. 4 July 1796. Intended for the church, Robinson preferred the profession of the law. He was one of nine children, and all that his father could spare for his start in life was 20l. in cash and a good supply of books. Fortunately he obtained a favourable recommendation to Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord Stowell. He determined upon studying maritime law, and was admitted into the college of advocates on 3 November 1796. He gained conspicuous success in this branch of the profession, was knighted on 6 February 1809, and was appointed, on 1 March 1809, to succeed Sir John Nicholl as king's advocate. As the holder of this office and the leading counsel in the admiralty court,",Q7526334,200,0
"Charles Philip Yorke (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834) was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804. Political career He sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810. He was commissioned as an officer in the Cambridgeshire Militia in 1793. He was promoted to major in 1795, a fellow officer was Captain George Manby By 1806 he was their colonel. He was MP for Liskeard from 1812 to 1818. In 1801 he was appointed Secretary at War in Henry Addington's ministry, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics. He made himself exceedingly unpopular in 1810 by bringing about the exclusion of strangers, including reporters for the press, from the House of Commons under the standing order, which led to the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet in the Tower and to riots in London. In the same year, Yorke joined Spencer Perceval's government as First Lord of the Admiralty. He retired from public life in 1818. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801. Family Yorke was the second son of the",Q5081631,200,1
"William Bunbury McClintock-Bunbury (1800 – 2 June 1866), known as William McClintock until 1846, was an Irish naval commander and Conservative politician. Born William McClintock, he was the son of John McClintock and Jane, daughter of William Bunbury. John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, was his elder brother, and the explorer Sir Francis McClintock his nephew. In 1846, he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Bunbury. McClintock-Bunbury was a captain in the Royal Navy. He also sat as member of parliament for County Carlow between 1846 and 1852, and again between 1853 and 1862. McClintock-Bunbury married Pauline Caroline Diana Mary, daughter of Sir James Stronge, 2nd Baronet, in 1842. They had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son Thomas succeeded his uncle as second Baron Rathdonnell in 1879. McClintock-Bunbury died in June 1866. His wife survived him by 10 years and died in January 1876. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr William McClintock O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). ""McClintock, William Bunbury"" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.",Q8015338,177,1
"Edward Ryley (or Riley) Langworthy (1797 - 7 April 1874) was a British businessman and an independent but Whig-leaning politician. Langworthy was born in London, the son of a Somerset merchant. After spending some years in South and Central America, he moved to Salford, Lancashire in 1840 to establish a cotton business with his brother, George. Langworthy Brothers and Company was established at Greengate Mills. When Salford was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1844, Langworthy was elected as the first alderman for Trinity ward. He was the borough's fifth mayor, elected for two consecutive terms from 1848 to 1850. His term as mayor saw the establishment of the free public museum and library at Peel Park In January 1857, Salford's Whig Member of Parliament, Joseph Brotherton, died. Langworthy was selected as the party's candidate for the vacancy, and as the only nominee, was elected unopposed on 2 February. Following his election he gave a speech outlining his political views: he supported the temperance movement, free trade and civil and religious freedom, the reform of parliament, strengthened local government, but opposed any increase in the size of the country's armed forces. He was only Salford's MP for a matter of",Q5345155,200,0
"Sir William Taylor Money (1769 – April 1834) was an English naval captain in the East India Company, superintendent of the Bombay Marine and MP in the British Parliament. Early life He was the eldest son of Captain William Money of Wood End House, Walthamstow, a director of the East India Company for 1789–96, and Martha, the daughter of James Taylor. Career Money was commissioned in the East India Company navy as a lieutenant in the Rose in 1786 and in 1793 he became commander of the General Goddard belonging to Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, his father's business partner. After a successful initial voyage he was given the command of other Wigram ships including the Walthamstow . On his retirement from sea in 1801 he became the East India Company Marine Superintendent at Bombay, a post he held until 1813. During this period he served as president of the Asiatic Society of Bombay from 1815. He also gave his name to Money Island in the Paracel Islands group in the South China Sea which was named after him by the British naval surveyor Captain Daniel Ross. On his return to England he established a home in Streatham Park, Surrey",Q21166869,200,0
Henry Alexander (1787–1861) was an English Tory politician who represented Barnstaple from 1826 to 1830. References,Q24192269,16,0
"John Langston ( c. 1758 – 18 February 1812) was an English merchant banker and politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain and its successor the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for most of the years between 1784 and 1807. Early life and family Langston was the oldest son of James Langston and his wife Sarah, of Sarsden House in Oxfordshire. In 1784 he married Sarah Goddard, daughter of John Goddard of Woodford Hall, Essex. They had one son (James Langston) and four daughters. Inheritance Langston was probably educated at Eton. He had a generous inheritance from his father, who died in 1795. As well as being a wine merchant in London, James Langston was a deputy governor of the Bank of England and founder of the merchant bank of Langston, Towgood and Amory. John inherited a partnership in the bank, shares in the British East India Company, the Sarsden and Churchill estates in Oxfordshire, and £300,000 (equivalent to £33 million in 2024). Career Langston was a director of the Sun Fire Office from 1794 until his death. He aimed to buy himself a place in Parliament, but never found a safe seat. At",Q19974192,200,0
"Frederick Wootton Isaacson (1836-22 February 1898) was an English businessman and Conservative politician. Born in Mildenhall, Suffolk, he was the son of Frederick Isaacson and Emma Elizabeth née Case. In 1857 he married Elizabeth Marie Louise Jaeger, only daughter of Stephen Jaeger, a banker from Frankfurt, Germany.They had two children: Frederick John Francis Wootton Isaacson (1858-1948) and Violet Marie Louise Wootton Isaacson (1861-1949). Isaacson initially made a living by the importing of silk. His wife established a millinery business on Regent Street as ""Madame Elise"", which was subsequently converted into a limited company. He later made a living from imports from the West Indies. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. He described himself as a ""Progressive Conservative"" in politics and in 1880 put himself forward as a candidate for the constituency of Wednesbury, but withdrew before the poll took place. At the 1885 general election he narrowly failed to win the parliamentary seat of Stepney by 22 votes. In the following year another election was held, and he was elected as Stepney's Member of Parliament with a majority of 502 over his Liberal Party opponent. At the 1892 general election",Q17309185,200,1
"Eugene Wason (26 January 1846 – 19 April 1927) was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1885 and 1918. Family Eugene Wason came from a Liberal family. His father, brother and son-in-law, were all Liberal Members of Parliament. His father was Rigby Wason sometime MP for Ipswich, his brother was Cathcart Wason the MP for Orkney and Shetland from 1900 to 1921 (and previously an MP in New Zealand 1876–79), first elected as a Liberal Unionist but later switching to the Liberals and his daughter Minna married John William Crombie who was MP for Kincardineshire from 1892 to 1908. In 1870, Wason married Eleanor Mary from Dolgelly, the daughter of C. R. Williams, Deputy Lieutenant of Merionethshire. They had three sons and two daughters. Stature and character Wason, like his brother Cathcart, was well over 6 feet tall. He was described by one of the contemporary Speakers of the House of Commons as 'the largest and tallest man in the House.' Sir Percy Harris who was Liberal MP for Bethnal Green South West and whose father was a close friend of Wason's has recorded that Eugene and Cathcart were",Q11806660,200,0
"Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (7 January 1833 – 18 December 1915) was a British chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium, photochemical studies, and his assistance in creating Oxo (food), in its earlier liquid form. Life and work Henry Enfield Roscoe was born in London, the son of Henry Roscoe (1800–1836) and Maria Roscoe, née Fletcher (1798–1885), and grandson of William Roscoe (1753–1831). Stanley Jevons the Australian economist was a cousin. Roscoe studied at the Liverpool Institute for Boys and University College London. He then went to Heidelberg to work under Robert Bunsen, who became a lifelong friend. He also befriended William Dittmar. In 1857, Roscoe returned to England with Dittmar and was appointed to the chair of chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, with Dittmar as his assistant. In 1858 the state of the college was such that the Manchester Guardian called it ""a mortifying failure"". In the same year Roscoe was accosted by a tramp near the college who asked him if it was the night asylum; he wrote ""I replied that it was not but if he would call again in six months' time he might find lodgings there."" Roscoe remained at the college until",Q337430,200,1
"John Robinson McClean CB FRS FRSA FRAS (21 March 1813 – 13 July 1873), was a British civil engineer and Liberal Party politician. He carried out many important works, and for a time was the sole owner of a main line railway, the first individual to do so. He carried out philanthropic works including securing a fresh water supply to overcome persistent outbreaks of cholera, taking no salary for his work. Early life He was born in the Bank Buildings, Belfast, and was the youngest of four sons of Francis McClean and Margaret McReyolds. Francis was an ironmonger, his shop being the centre one of three located on the ground floor of the Bank Buildings, One brother (Adam) was a Civil Engineer in Dublin, while another (Francis), became an eminent dentist, practicing at St Stephens Green, Dublin. John was educated at Belfast Academical Institution and University of Glasgow. Engineering career Whilst still young, he offered himself as candidate for the Office of Engineer to the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, but was refused. Upon leaving the Board Room, he said to the then 'Secretary of the Belfast Harbour Board' Mr Edmund Getty, (an old family friend) ""that he would let the Commissioners",Q6255297,200,0
"Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook , (22 January 1826 – 15 November 1904) was a British Liberal statesman. Gladstone appointed him Governor-General of India 1872–1876. His major accomplishments came as an energetic reformer who was dedicated to upgrading the quality of government in the British Raj. He reduced taxes and overcame bureaucratic obstacles in an effort to reduce both starvation and widespread social unrest. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1880 and 1885. Background and education Northbrook was the eldest son of Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, by his first wife Jane, daughter of the Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet. Jane died when young Thomas was less than thirteen, and he studied under a tutor, Mr. Bird, at home and took an interest in natural history. At fourteen Thomas wrote to his father who was holidaying at Weymouth to capture a yellow butterfly with black spots at the end of each wing known to be found on Portland Island. He was sent briefly to another tutor, Mr. Vaughan Johnson at Chalons-sur-Marne, to study French. He also took an interest in sketching, learning from S. Palmer, and later his friend Edward Lear. He went to Christ",Q337771,200,1
"John Husband (1839 – 5 November 1919) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cricklade from 1892 to 1895. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1892 general election, defeating the sitting Liberal Unionist MP. Husband did not defend his seat at the 1895 general election, and did not stand for Parliament again. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Husband",Q6240505,74,0
"James Francis Xavier ( J. F. X. ) O'Brien (13 or 16 October 1828 – 28 May 1905) was an Irish nationalist Fenian revolutionary in the 1860s. He was later elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish Parliamentary Party. Life Early life O'Brien was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford to the merchant family of Timothy and Catherine O'Brien. Early Fenian activity O'Brien was studying divinity in St. John's College, Waterford when he became caught up in the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848. During the summer of 1849, he organised a new revolutionary secret society in Dungarvan. In September 1849, he participated an attack, organised by James Fintan Lalor, on Cappoquin police barracks and evaded arrest, fleeing to Wales on one of his father's merchant ships for a number of months. In 1854 he won a scholarship to study medicine at Queen's College, Galway. However, a year later he left for Paris, with his friend John O'Leary, where he continued his studies, attending the École de Médecine. Health problems did not allow him to graduate, however. O'Brien was advised by Dominic Corrigan to take",Q6105688,200,0
"Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895), known as Edward Bunbury until 1886, was an English Barrister and a British Liberal Party politician. Biography Bunbury was the second son of Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet, and the grandson of Henry Bunbury; his mother was Louisa Emilia Fox, daughter of Henry Edward Fox. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1841. In 1847 Bunbury was elected to the House of Commons for Bury St Edmunds, a seat he held until 1852. In 1886, he succeeded his elder brother in the baronetcy. Bunbury died of pneumonia in March 1895, aged 83. He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Charles. Work Bunbury's two-volume history of ancient geography published in 1879 is the first modern work in English which treats the textual sources with any sophistication. He was also a contributing author to the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854–57), and to a number of other reference works. Samuel Sharpe thought Bunbury had plagiarised his work on the Ptolemies. Notes References Smith, William, ed. (1854). ""List of writers"". Dictionary of Greek",Q5342065,200,1
"Alexander Hastie MP (1805–1864) was a 19th-century Scottish Whig politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1846 to 1848. He was MP for Glasgow from 1847 to 1848 and from 1852 to 1857. He was one of the few people to simultaneously have been Lord Provost and MP for the same city. He was noted as an anti-slavery activist. Life He was born on 24 April 1805, the son of Robert Hastie (1774-1827). The family moved to Glasgow around 1815. His father was President of the Glasgow Philosophical Society. From 1822 to 1827 he lived and worked in Canada. He worked for the family firm of R. Hastie & Co, based first at Somerville Place and later at 13 John Street in Glasgow. The company traded with America and the East Indies. In 1837 he joined Glasgow town council as a councillor. At the time of his being Lord Provost in 1846 he lived at 212 Bath Street in the Glasgow city centre. In 1863 he purchased Luscar House, near Dunfermline in Fife. He had an attack of epileptic seizure at home in Bath Street in January 1864. He died on 13 August 1864 at Luscar House. Family",Q26257507,200,1
"William James Clement (1802 – 29 August 1870) was an English surgeon and a Liberal Party politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1870. Clement was the son of William Clement who was a medical practitioner in Shrewsbury for over sixty years. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at the University of Edinburgh. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the Society of Apothecaries, surgeon to the 1st battalion of the Shropshire Rifle Volunteers, and in actual practice as a surgeon. He authored Observations in Surgery and Pathology and in 1834 was awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London. In writing An Account of Two Cases of Intestinal Obstruction, in which the operation for the formation of an artificial anus was performed; one in the ascending, the other in the descending colon he claimed to have been the first surgeon in Great Britain who successfully opened the ascending colon for intestinal obstruction. He was an Alderman, Mayor of Shrewsbury for 1861–62, a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Merionethshire and a J.P. for Shrewsbury borough. At the 1865 general",Q8013441,200,1
"Rainald Knightley, 1st Baron Knightley (22 October 1819 – 19 December 1895), known as Sir Rainald Knightley, 3rd Baronet , from 1864 to 1892, was a British Conservative Party politician. Origins Knightley was the son of Sir Charles Knightley, 2nd Baronet of Fawsley, and his wife Selina Mary, daughter of F. L. Hervey. In 1864 he inherited the baronetcy and the Fawsley estate on the death of his father. The prominent de Knightley family originated at the Staffordshire manor of Knightley, acquired by them shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the tenant of Chenistelei as Rainald , namely ""Reginald the Sheriff"", who held 88 manors throughout England, said to be the ancestor of this family. Mark Noble (1787) wrote of the de Knightley family: There is no private family in the kingdom has given more knights; none which has been more numerous in its branches; some of them have almost rivalled the eldest in consequence, and that fettled in France surpassed them, having many centuries ago been declared noble; the alliances they have contracted have been equal to themselves, and the many high offices held by them in the state, have been exceeded",Q7284541,200,0
"Benjamin Walsh (c. 1775 – 1818) was an English stockbroker and member of parliament representing Wootton Bassett from 1808 to 1812. In 1809 he was expelled from the London Stock Exchange for ""gross and nefarious conduct"". In 1812 he was convicted of defrauding Thomas Plumer of a considerable sum of money. Walsh was pardoned by the Prince Regent, but was expelled from the House of Commons. In 1813 Walsh purchased a Plymouth newspaper which subsequently failed in 1816. One of his sons was Benjamin Dann Walsh who emigrated to the United States in 1838 and became a notable entomologist. References",Q18707195,100,1
"Sir James Caird (10 July 1816 – 9 February 1892) was a Scottish agriculturist, agricultural writer and politician. His views were based on economic liberalism which led to him forming an advisory relationship to Sir Robert Peel and later under Benjamin Disraeli. He examined the Irish famine and still later served on the commission to examine the famines in India. Life Born at Stranraer, the son of James Caird and Isabella McNeil, Caird was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh. He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth from 1857 to 1859 and for Stirling Burghs from 1859 to 1865. He started as a progressive farmer at Baldoon and then became a land-owner at Kirkcudbrightshire. He grew to become a voice of the free-trade farmer and thus represented economic liberalism of the period. In 1849, he wrote High Farming as the best Substitute for Protection. The work caught the attention of the Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, who saw Caird as a well-informed commentator. Peel invited Caird to examine agriculture and the famine in Ireland. Caird subsequently represented the ""Peelite"" position on economics and famine relief. In 1850 he wrote The Plantation Scheme: Or, the West of",Q5600885,200,0
"Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont (29 April 1758 – 31 July 1829) of Bretton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire, was a British Tory politician and soldier. Origins He was the son of Thomas Beaumont of The Oaks in Darton, Yorkshire, by his wife Anne Ayscough, daughter of Edward Ayscough. Career In 1794 Beaumont raised the 21st Light Dragoons and served as the regiment's colonel until 1802. He entered the British House of Commons in 1795 and sat for Northumberland first in the Parliament of Great Britain, then in Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1818. Marriage and children Beaumont married Diana Wentworth (1765–1831), daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baronet, by whom he had three daughters and five sons, including Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, eldest son, also MP for Northumberland, and the ancestor of Baron Allendale and Viscount Allendale. The genus of plant in the Apocynaceae family was named Beaumontia in Diana Wentworth Beaumont's honour as she was a botanical patron. Death and burial Beaumont died at his seat Bretton Hall in Yorkshire. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Richard Beaumont",Q7793500,181,0
"Apsley Pellatt (27 November 1791 – 17 August 1863) was an English glassware manufacturer and politician. He was the son of glassware maker Apsley Pellatt (1763–1826) and Mary (née Maberly) Pellatt. Glassmaking career He joined the family glass-making company of Pellatt and Green in 1811. He took over the London-based glass-works on his father's death, renaming it Apsley Pellatt & Co. His main interest lay in the chemistry of glass-making. In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of ""sulfides"" or Cameo Incrustations. Pellatt originally called them ""Crystallo-Ceramie,"" reflecting their French origin. The process involved the embedding of ceramic figurines into the glass sides of paperweights, jugs, decanters, etc., by cutting a hole in the hot glass, sliding in the insert, and resealing the glass afterward. Pellatt became the most famous and successful producers of sulfides in England from 1819 to the mid-century rivalled only by Baccarat in France. He described their manufacture in a book on glass-making entitled ""Curiosities of Glassmaking"" published in 1849. After his retirement around 1850, the glass-works went into decline in the hands of his brother Frederic. Political career Pellatt was a public-spirited man who for some years served on the Common",Q4782192,200,1
Thomas Lewis (1821 – 2 December 1897) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Anglesey 12 July 1886 – 19 July 1895. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Lewis,Q7791836,40,0
"John Lowles (1850 – 1903) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. The son of George Lowles of Frant, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, he entered business as a wholesale tea merchant. He married his cousin, Agnes Westoby, in 1871 and was living in Stamford Hill in north London by 1880 having become a leading member of the Hackney Conservative Club. In 1882, he unsuccessfully stood for election to the London School Board. He became President of the Hackney Conservative Union, representing the party at meetings with the boundary commissioners appointed under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. When the first elections to the London County Council were held in January 1889, Lowles was nominated by the Conservatives to contest the Hackney Central Division. He was elected, serving three years as a member of the Conservative-backed Moderate Party that formed the opposition group. He was defeated at the next council elections in 1892, when the Liberal-backed Progressive Party increased the size of its majority. At the 1895 general election, Lowles stood for election to the House of Commons as Conservative candidate at Shoreditch, Haggerston. He unseated the sitting Liberal Party Member of Parliament, Randal Cremer by the small majority of",Q13529977,200,0
"William Hackblock (1805 – 2 January 1858) was a British Independent Liberal politician. Hackblock was elected MP for Reigate in 1857, but died less than a year later, in 1858. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr William Hackblock",Q26446169,42,0
"George Byng DL JP (17 May 1764 – 10 January 1847), of Wrotham Park in Middlesex (now Hertfordshire), and of Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, London, was a British Whig politician. Origins He was the eldest son and heir of George Byng (1735-1789) (eldest son of Robert Byng (1703-1740), third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733)) of Wrotham Park, by his wife Anne Conolly, a daughter of William Conolly (d.1754), of Stratton Hall, Staffordshire and of Castletown, co. Kildare, a Member of Parliament. Anne's mother was Lady Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739). His younger brother was Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772-1860), elevated to the peerage in 1847 with the same territorial designation as the earldom of his maternal cousins, which earldom had become extinct in 1799. Career He was educated at Göttingen University from 1780 where he studied under Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Byng was returned to Parliament for Middlesex in 1790, a seat he held until his death 57 years later. During his early years he was an associate of Charles James Fox. Between 1832 and 1847 he was Father of the House of Commons.",Q5537522,200,0
"Thomas Legh FRS ( c. 1793 – 8 May 1857) was a politician in England. Born about 1793 he was the oldest illegitimate son and heir of Thomas Peter Legh. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. Thomas Legh travelled after leaving Oxford, he was in Egypt in 1812 and 1813 and published an account of his journey in 1816. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 16 April 1814 (presumably this was the date he came of age), until the borough was disenfranchised at the 1832 general election. He married twice, firstly on 14 January 1828 to Ellen Turner (who had previously been abducted at the age of 15). They had one son who predeceased his father and one daughter. Ellen died in childbirth in 1831. His second marriage on 3 October 1843 was to Maud Lowther; they had no children. In 1830 he was one of the initial proprietors of the Wigan Branch Railway. Thomas Legh made his nephew, William John Legh, his successor. William later became Baron Newton. Thomas Legh died on 8 May 1857. Notes References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Legh",Q7791795,198,1
"John Henry Gurney (4 July 1819 – 20 April 1890) was an English banker, amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party politician of the Gurney family. Life Gurney was the only son of Joseph John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk. At the age of ten he was sent to a private tutor at Leytonstone near the Epping Forest, where he met Henry Doubleday, and commenced his first natural history collection. From there he moved to the Friends' School at Tottenham, and whilst there met William Yarrell. At the age of seventeen he joined the family's banking business in Norwich. Gurney published a number of articles in The Zoologist on the birds of Norfolk, for instance 'An Account of the Birds of Norfolk', with W.R. Fisher (1846-1848). Gurney also commenced a collection of birds of prey. In 1864 he published Part I. of his Descriptive Catalogue of this collection, and in 1872 he edited The Birds of Damara Land (Damaraland, South-West Africa) from the notes of his friend Charles John Andersson. Between 1875 and 1882 he produced a series of notes in The Ibis on the first volume of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum , and in 1884 brought",Q1372753,200,1
"Robert James Roy Campbell (1813 – 7 June 1862) was a British Liberal and Whig politician. Campbell was first elected Whig MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis at the 1857 general election, and held the seat until 1859, when he stood as a Liberal but was defeated. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Robert Campbell",Q26218384,59,0
"Rowland Burdon ( c. 1757 – 17 September 1838) was an English landowner and Tory politician from Castle Eden in County Durham. Life He was the only son of Rowland Burdon, a merchant and banker of Newcastle and Castle Eden and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne and University College, Oxford. He then took the Grand Tour. On his return he became a partner in his father's bank, the Exchange Bank in Newcastle and inherited the Castle Eden estate on the death of his father in 1786. He was elected at the 1790 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Durham, and held the seat until the 1806 general election, which he did not contest. He was also Mayor of Stockton for 1793–94. The Castle Eden Vase (or Beaker) was found on his estate in about 1775, by a labourer working on a hedge. The glass vase was a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ""claw beaker"" which had been buried beside the skull of human body. It was presented to the British Museum in October 1947 by his great-great-granddaughter Mrs Sclater-Booth, in memory of her father Rowland Burdon (1857–1944). He was a prominent Freemason",Q7372109,200,0
"Æneas John McIntyre (6 December 1821 – 19 September 1889) was a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Career Aeneas McIntyre joined the Middle Temple on 6 November 1843 and was called to the bar on 20 November 1846. On 8 February 1872 he was appointed Queen's Counsel and became a Bencher of his Inn on 27 May 1873. He went on the North Wales and Chester circuit and was elected a member of the Bar Committee in December 1883. At the 1880 general election McIntyre was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Worcester. He held the seat until Worcester's representation was reduced to one seat under the Redistribution of Seats Act. At the 1880 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Hackney North. McIntyre was appointed County Court Judge for circuit No. 12 (Yorkshire) in January 1889. Personal life Mclntyre was born in Clapham, Surrey in 1821, the only son of Aeneas Mclntyre LL.D. and F.L.S., of King's College, Aberdeen, and Hackney and his wife Charlotte Susanna Thompson, daughter of William Thomson of Jamaica. He married Eleanor Corbett daughter of George Corbett in Islington in 1854. They",Q4687779,200,1
"Charles Savile Roundell (19 July 1827 – 3 March 1906) was an English cricketer, lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1895. Roundell was born at Clifton House, County York the son of Rev. Danson Richardson Roundell of Screven and Glestone Yorkshire, and his wife Hannah Foulis, daughter of Sir W Foulis, 7th Baronet. His father had adopted the surname Currer in 1801 on the death of his brother, and Roundell is sometimes referred to as Charles Savile Currer . He was educated at Harrow School where he was captain of the cricket XI and at Balliol College, Oxford. He played cricket as Charles Currer, making his first-class debut for Gentlemen of England in 1846. He played for Oxford University in 1847 and 1848 and for Gentlemen of the North in 1852. He was an occasional wicket-keeper and played nine innings in five first-class matches with an average of 7.87 and a top score of 31. He continued playing cricket for the Old Harrovians until 1862. In 1851 Roundell was elected Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and won the Chancellor's Prize for the English essay. He was called to the",Q5082366,200,0
"Jacob Bell (5 March 1810 – 12 June 1859) was a British pharmaceutical chemist who worked to reform the profession. He served as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans from 1850 to 1852. Career Bell was born in London, one of the six children of John Bell (1774–1849) and Eliza Smith (died 1839), his wife. On the completion of his education, he joined his father in business as a chemist in Oxford Street, and at the same time attended chemistry lectures at the Royal Institution, and those on medicine at King's College London. Always keenly alive to the interests of chemists in general, Bell conceived the idea of a society which should at once protect the interests of the trade, and improve its status, and at a public meeting held on 15 April 1841, it was resolved to found the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Bell carried his scheme through in the face of many difficulties, and further advanced the cause of pharmacy by establishing the Pharmaceutical Journal, and superintending its publication for eighteen years. The Pharmaceutical Society was incorporated by royal charter in 1843. One of the first abuses to engage the attention of the new",Q6118350,200,1
"Ashton Wentworth Dilke (11 August 1850 – 12 March 1883) was an editor, British traveller and radical Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1883. Life Dilke was the younger son of Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet, and was educated privately before being admitted to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1868. He was made a scholar in 1870 and was a prominent member of the Cambridge Union Society, although he left before finishing his degree, instead travelling to Russia in 1872. For several months he lived in a Russian village and studied the language, as well as examining the status of the Russian peasantry. He returned in 1873 showing signs of tuberculosis, the disease which eventually killed him. He began writing a book about Russia, two chapters of which appeared in the Fortnightly Review in 1874, but it was never published. In 1875, he bought the Weekly Dispatch for £14,000, acting as editor until 1876 and then again between 1878 and 1880. In 1878 he published a translation of Ivan Turgenev's Virgin Soil . On 10 April 1876 he married Margaret Smith, eldest daughter of Thomas Eustace Smith, with whom he had two sons and a",Q4806083,200,0
"Joseph Francis Fox (1853–1903) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Biography Fox was elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the Tullamore constituency at the 1885 general election, and re-elected at the 1886 general election. At the 1892 general election, he was returned unopposed as an Irish National Federation (Anti-Parnellite) MP, and re-elected at the 1895 general election. He did not contest the 1900 general election. Professionally, he was a surgeon and physician. External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joseph Fox",Q26722128,102,1
"Clement Tudway (1734–1815) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 54 years from 1761 to 1815, being Father of the House from 1806. Tudway was the eldest son of Charles Tudway and his wife Hannah. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1751. In 1752 he entered Middle Temple 1752 and was called to the bar in 1759. He married Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Baronet on 7 June 1762. In 1770, he succeeded his father. He became recorder of Wells and was Mayor of Wells ten times. Tudway was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Wells on his father's interest at the 1761 general election. At the 1768 general election there was a contest at Wells, but he topped the poll because his father could command enough votes. He was also returned as MP for Midhurst as a Government candidate at the 1774 general election but decided to sit for Wells where he was returned unopposed. By 1806 he was the longest standing MP in the House, but by this time his absences though ill-health were becoming frequent. Tudway died while still an MP on 7 July 1815.",Q20713087,200,0
"Richard Armstrong (1815 – 26 August 1880) was an Irish Liberal politician, and barrister. He was the son of William Armstrong, an engineer by profession, of Roxborough, County Armagh, and his wife Eliza Armstrong (née Steacy). After graduating in law from Trinity College Dublin, Armstrong was called to the bar in 1839 and then, in 1854, became Queen's Counsel. He was considered one of the finest Irish advocates of his time, with numerous courtroom triumphs to his credit, most notably the Yelverton case. Armstrong was elected MP as a Liberal candidate for Sligo Borough in the 1865 general election and held the seat until 1868 when he stood down. He was the First Serjeant-at-law of Ireland from 1866 until his death, having previously served as Third Serjeant from 1861 to 1865, and briefly as Second Serjeant in 1865. A very tall man, he was nicknamed ""the Big Serjeant"" while his diminutive colleague Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet was ""the Little Serjeant"". Armstrong married Elizabeth Meurant in 1847, and they had at least one son, William Armstrong BL (1848-1899) who married Alice Arundel, and one daughter, Lily (1952-1931) who befriended John Ruskin while she attended Winnington Hall. She was the subject",Q26161704,200,0
"Richard Peacock (9 April 1820 – 3 March 1889) was an English engineer, one of the founders of locomotive manufacturer Beyer, Peacock and Company. He was later a Member of Parliament. Early life and education Born in Swaledale, Yorkshire, Richard Peacock was educated at Leeds Grammar School. At 14 he left to be apprenticed at Fenton, Murray and Jackson in Leeds. Career Reflecting a burgeoning industry that had barely started a decade beforehand, the Leeds and Selby Railway Company appointed Peacock in 1838, aged 18, as a locomotive superintendent. When the firm was acquired by the York and North Midland Railway in 1840, he worked under Daniel Gooch at Swindon, but left reputedly to escape Gooch's wrath. In 1841 he became the locomotive superintendent of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which became the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company from 1847. In this role he was responsible for founding the Gorton locomotive works for the company. He left shortly before they were completed in 1848. In 1847, Peacock was present with Charles Beyer at a meeting at Lickey Incline which it is generally acknowledged gave birth to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. George Stephenson was elected as first president",Q2150364,200,0
"Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge , (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel's cabinet. He went on to be Governor-General of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War. Early life The son of the Rev, Henry Hardinge, Rector of Stanhope, and his wife Frances Best, he was educated at Durham School and Sevenoaks School. Hardinge entered the British Army on 23 July 1799 as an ensign in the Queen's Rangers, a corps then stationed in Upper Canada. He was promoted to lieutenant by purchase in the 4th Regiment of Foot on 27 March 1802 and transferred to the 1st Regiment of Foot on 11 July 1803 before becoming a captain of a company by purchase in the 57th Regiment of Foot on 21 April 1804. In February 1806 he was sent to the newly formed Staff College at High Wycombe. Military career Peninsular",Q332793,200,0
"Henry Arthur Brassey (14 July 1840 – 13 May 1891), DL, of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent and of Bath House, Piccadilly, London, was a British Member of Parliament. Origins He was the second son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey (1805-1870) by his wife Maria Harrison, a daughter of Thomas Harrison of Liverpool. His elder brother was Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey and his younger brother was Albert Brassey, a Member of Parliament for Banbury. Career He was educated at Oxford University, and in 1868 was elected as Member of Parliament for Sandwich in Kent, as a Liberal, a seat he held until 1885. Brassey served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent, as High Sheriff of Kent in 1890 and as a Justice of the Peace for that county. Marriage and children In 1866 Brassey married Anna Harriet Stevenson (d.1898), a daughter of Major George Robert Stevenson of Tongswood, Hawkhurst, Kent, by whom he had five sons and seven daughters, including: Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, second but eldest surviving son and heir, a Conservative politician who was raised to the peerage in 1938. Harold Ernest Brassey, soldier and polo champion; Hilda Brassey (Duchess of Richmond), wife of",Q5718544,200,0
"Sir John Call, 1st Baronet (30 June 1731 – 1 March 1801) was an English engineer and baronet. He was born at Fenny Park, Tiverton, Devon, educated at Blundell's School and went to India at the age of 17 with Benjamin Robins, the chief engineer and captain-general of artillery in the East India Company's settlements. After the death of Robins, Call became engineer-in-chief, and eventually chief engineer with a seat on the Governor's Council. Robert Clive strongly recommended Call for the Governorship of Madras, but he had to return to England on the death of his father on 31 December 1766. On his return, he became High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1771–72 and was elected MP for Callington in 1784, a seat he held until his death. In 1784 he also became a partner in the Pybus and Son banking house and was created the 1st Baronet Call in 1791. Call built Whiteford House near Stoke Climsland, Cornwall (demolished in 1913) and the nearby folly, Whiteford Temple, now owned by the Landmark Trust. He also built the reproduction Civil War fort on the summit of Kit Hill and was responsible for the construction of Bodmin Gaol in 1779. He was",Q7527640,200,0
"John Otway O'Conner Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart (12 October 1818 – 1 April 1865), styled Viscount Castlecuffe until 1820, was an Irish Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between March and December 1852 in the Earl of Derby's first administration. Background Desart was the son of John Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart, and Catherine, daughter of Maurice O'Connor. He succeeded in the earldom in November 1820, aged two, on the early death of his father. He was educated at Eton College and entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1836 but took no degree. Political career Desart sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Ipswich between June and July 1842, when his election was declared void. He didn't stand in the subsequent by-election. In 1846 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer and thus took a seat in the House of Lords, which he held until his death in 1865. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in Lord Derby's short-lived protectionist government of 1852. Family Lord Desart married Lady Elizabeth Lucy, daughter of John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, in 1842. They had three sons and",Q6227814,200,0
"Granville Leveson Proby, 4th Earl of Carysfort (14 September 1824 – 18 May 1872), styled Lord Proby from 1858 to 1868, was a British Liberal politician. He notably held office as Comptroller of the Household between 1859 and 1866. Background and early life Proby was born at Bushey Park, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, the second son of Admiral Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, by Isabella Howard, daughter of the Honourable Hugh Howard. He became known by the courtesy title Lord Proby in 1858 on the death of his elder brother. He served with the 74th Regiment of Foot and achieved the rank of captain. Political career In 1858 Proby was elected to the House of Commons for County Wicklow, and served under Lord Palmerston and then Lord Russell as Comptroller of the Household from 1859 to 1866. In 1868 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1859 and made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1869. Family Lord Carysfort married Lady Augusta Maria Hare, daughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, in 1853. The marriage was childless. He died in Florence,",Q5596932,200,0
"Philip Rashleigh (28 December 1729 – 26 June 1811) of Menabilly, Cornwall, was an antiquary and Fellow of the Royal Society and a Cornish squire. He collected and published the Trewhiddle Hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure, which still gives its name to the ""Trewhiddle style"" of 9th century decoration. Origins He was born at Aldermanbury, City of London, on 28 December 1729, the eldest son and heir of Jonathan Rashleigh (1693–1764), of Menabilly, MP for Fowey in Cornwall, by his wife Mary Clayton, daughter of Sir William Clayton, 1st Baronet (died 1744) of Marden Park in Surrey. (see: Woldingham) Career He matriculated from New College, Oxford, 15 July 1749, and contributed to the poems of the university on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, a set of English verses, which is reprinted in Nichols's Select Collection of Poems (viii. 201–2); he left Oxford without taking a degree. On the death of his father in 1764 he inherited the family seat of Menabilly, near Fowey on the south coast of Cornwall. He also took over from him in Parliament as the elected member for the family borough of Fowey on 21 January 1765, sitting continuously, in spite of contests and election",Q7184266,200,1
"James William Barclay (1832 – 26 February 1907) was a Scottish businessman, farmer and politician. For nineteen years he was member of parliament for Forfarshire. He was the son of George Barclay of Cults, near Aberdeen and his wife Margaret née Massie of Maryculter, Kincardineshire. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen. He entered business as a manure merchant, and was also a major landowner and farmer. He farmed in Forfarshire, which had large amounts of grazing land for cattle. He was involved in the innovation of importing store cattle from the United States and Canada. In 1864 Barclay was elected to the town council of the royal burgh of Aberdeen. He continued to a member until 1871, and was leader of the ""Progressive"" grouping, allied to the parliamentary Liberal Party, that controlled the council. In June 1872 Colonel William Sykes, MP for Aberdeen died. Barclay was chosen as the official Liberal candidate. However, his reputation as a Radical led to a split in the local party, and John Farley Leith was also nominated as a ""Moderate Liberal"". In the event Leith was successful and Barclay was defeated. In January 1874 a general election was",Q6145543,200,0
"Charles Mills (13 July 1755 – 29 January 1826) was a British Member of Parliament and a Director of the East India Company. He was the second son of the Revd. John Mills, rector of Barford and Oxhill, Warwickshire and educated at Rugby. He was a partner in the private bank Glyn's and from 1785 to 1815 was also a director of the East India Company, before becoming deputy chairman. In 1858, he was one of the EIC directors appointed to the Council of India. Mills was elected MP for Warwick from 1802 to 1826. He married his sister-in-law Jane, the daughter of the Hon. Wriothesley Digby of Meriden, Warwickshire. He had no children and was succeeded by his nephews. References ""MILLS, Charles (1755–1826), of 12 Mansfield Street, Marylebone, Mdx. and Barford, Warws"". History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 2 April 2013 .",Q5080954,143,0
"Wyndham Lewis (7 October 1780 – 14 March 1838) was a British politician and a close associate of Benjamin Disraeli, whom his widow married after his death. Biography Lewis was the son of Reverend Wyndham Lewis, of Tongwynlais, Glamorganshire. From his family, he interited shares in the Dowlais Iron Company and substantial estates in Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire. He entered Lincoln's Inn as a student in 1812, and was called to the bar in 1819. He was also a major in the county militia, a justice of the peace, and a deputy lieutenant. He sat as Member of Parliament for Cardiff Boroughs from 1820 to 1826, for Aldeburgh from 1827 to 1829 and for Maidstone from 1835 to 1838. Lewis married Mary Anne, daughter of John Evans, in 1816. They had no children. He died in March 1838, in London's Mayfair, aged 57. His widow married Benjamin Disraeli in 1839 and was created Viscountess Beaconsfield in 1868. Mary Anne Lewis and Wyndham Lewis are mentioned in the book penned by the former politician, Douglas Hurd, about the needy ""D'Israeli"", on page 79. A quote from that book, tells us; ""It was at this moment that Mary Anne Lewis entered the",Q8040126,200,0
"Samuel Charles Whitbread (16 February 1796 – 27 May 1879) was a British Member of Parliament, member of the Whitbread brewing family and founding president of the Royal Meteorological Society. Early life and education Whitbread was the son of Samuel Whitbread and Lady Elizabeth Grey. Grey was the daughter of General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey and sister of Prime Minister Charles Grey. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics, moral philosophy and classics. On 6 July 1815, Whitbread's father took his own life, whereupon his two sons, William Henry (then aged 20) and Samual Charles (19), inherited the family business and estates. Politics As a Whig MP, he represented the constituency of Middlesex (1820–1830) and was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1831. He made three major contributions to debates including to the Reform of Parliament debate, where he opposed the existence of rotten boroughs and the selling of seats in the House of Commons. Meteorology and astronomy His interests were astronomy and meteorology. He founded, along with John Lee and James Glaisher, and served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1850 to 1853. He remained a member of Council",Q7411097,200,1
"Thomas George Corbett (1796–1868) was an English Member of Parliament, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1840. Background Thomas Corbett was the son of William Corbett (died 1832) of Darnhall and his wife Jane Eleanor, daughter of George Ainslie (British Army officer, died 1804). His mother's uncles included Colonel Sir Philip Ainslie of Pilton and Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, MP and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. In 1810 William Corbett changed his name to William Thompson Corbett, to inherit the Elsham estate from his mother's great-uncle Robert Thompson. Political career Corbett was elected in the 1835 United Kingdom general election and sat for two and a half years, until the 1837 election, triggered by the death of King William. He was a Conservative; he replaced the previous Tory candidate, Sir Robert Sheffield. His constituency was Lindsey, Lincolnshire, known then as the Parts of Lindsey (the northernmost of the three administrative divisions of Lincolnshire, the others being Holland and Kesteven). The seat was created by the Reform Act 1832, and Corbett succeeded William Amcotts-Ingilby. The Parts of Lindsey elected two members; Corbett sat alongside the Whig MP Charles Anderson-Pelham, later Lord Wolsey, 2nd Earl of Yarborough. In 2015 the Working",Q26265339,200,0
"Thomas Myers (1764–1835), of 4 Tilney Street, Middlesex and Greys, Sible Hedingham, Essex, was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Harwich from 1802 to 7 April 1803 and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 7 December 1810 to 1812. References",Q21548830,48,0
James Brogden (c. 1765–1842) was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Launceston from 1796 to 1832. References,Q24254555,21,0
"Sir John Stuart (1793 – 29 October 1876) was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1846 to 1852, before becoming a judge. Early life Stuart was the son of Dugald Stuart, of Ballachulish in Argyll. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in November 1819. Career He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Newark-on-Trent at an unopposed by-election in January 1846. The borough was at that time under the patronage of the under the patronage of the Dukes of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and the 4th Duke was a staunch Conservative and protectionist. In an address ""to the free and independent-minded electors of the borough of Newark"", he pledged himself as a ""firm supporter"" of the Church of England and of the Corn Laws, claiming that their abolition would ""injure the best interests of our empire"". The hustings took place in the town square of Newark in heavy rain on the morning of 29 January 1846, where Stuart spoke in favour of protection for agriculture and for industry. Since no other candidate was proposed, Stuart was nominated and promptly declared elected. He was re-elected at the 1847 general",Q6259518,200,0
"William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale , PC, FRS (21 July 1787 – 4 March 1872), styled Viscount Lowther between 1807 and 1844, was a British Tory politician. Background Lonsdale was the eldest son of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and Lady Augusta, daughter of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland. Henry Lowther was his younger brother. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Political career Lonsdale was returned to parliament for Cockermouth in 1808, a seat he held until 1813, and later represented Westmorland between 1813 and 1831 and 1832 and 1841, Dunwich in 1832 and West Cumberland between 1832 and 1833. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1818 and served under the Duke of Wellington as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1828 and 1830 and under Sir Robert Peel as Treasurer of the Navy and Vice-President of the Board of Trade between 1834 and 1835. In 1841 he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Lowther and held office under Peel as Postmaster General between 1841 and 1845. In 1844 he succeeded his father in the earldom of Lonsdale.",Q8014747,200,1
"Henry Tufnell (1805 – 15 June 1854) was a British Whig politician. He was born the eldest son of William Tufnell of Chichester (MP for Colchester, 1806) and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1829. Whilst at Oxford, he, along with George Cornewall Lewis, translated Karl Otfried Müller's book The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race into English. He was appointed secretary to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton when the latter was Governor of Ceylon and from 1835 to 1839 was Private Secretary to Lord Minto when that Earl was First Lord of the Admiralty. He entered the House of Commons in 1837 as a member for Ipswich, having previously been defeated in the Colchester election in 1835, but lost that seat a year later. He was returned for Devonport in a by-election in 1840 and held that seat until 1854. He held minor posts in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell, and was made a Privy Counsellor when he resigned for health reasons in 1850. He died at the age of 49. He had married 3 times; firstly in 1830 Anne Augusta, the daughter of the Rt Hon. Sir",Q5729338,200,0
"George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (10 February 1797 – 20 October 1883), styled Viscount Chichester until 1799 and Earl of Belfast between 1799 and 1844, was an Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1830 to 1834, as well as from 1838 to 1841, and as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1848 and 1852. Ennobled in his own right in 1841, he was also Lord Lieutenant of Antrim from 1841 to 1883 and was made a Knight of St Patrick in 1857. Background and education Lord Donegall was born at Great Cumberland Place, London, the eldest son of Viscount Chichester (who became The 2nd Marquess of Donegall in 1799) by his wife Anna May, daughter of Sir Edward May, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, before serving for a time as a captain with the 11th Hussars. He was known by the courtesy title Viscount Chichester from birth until 1799 and as Earl of Belfast from 1799 to 1844. Political career In 1818, Lord Belfast (as he was from 1799 until 1844) was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP)",Q5537863,200,0
"George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland , (19 December 1828 – 22 September 1892), styled Viscount Trentham until 1833, Earl Gower in 1833 and Marquess of Stafford between 1833 and 1861, was a British politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Early life Sutherland was born on 19 December 1828 at Hamilton Place, London. He was the son of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland and Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard. He was educated at Eton College and King's College London. Career Sutherland was Liberal Member of Parliament for Sutherland from 1852 until he succeeded his father as Duke in 1861. He took part in a number of state occasions. He was one of the British delegation to the coronation of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1856, hosted the public visit by Garibaldi to Britain in 1864, attended the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and accompanied the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) on his state visit to India in 1876. He was Lord Lieutenant of Cromarty from 1852 until the role was abolished in 1891, and Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland from 1861 until his death. Sutherland hosted Ulysses S. Grant at Dunrobin when the former president",Q333933,200,0
"Jonathan Raine (1763–1831) was an English barrister, judge and politician. Early life He was the son of Matthew Raine, a cleric and schoolmaster, and younger brother of Matthew Raine FRS. He was educated at Eton College, where he was a friend of Richard Porson, and matriculated in 1783 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1787, and M.A. in 1790; he became a Fellow of Trinity in 1789. Admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1785, he was called to the bar in 1791. From 1793 for a decade, Raine was a London criminal lawyer at the Old Bailey. He also became known as a special pleader, went the Northern Circuit, and gained a reputation for Latin verse. Associations Raine was one of the circle of William Frend, being present on the occasion of the noted tea party with William Wordsworth on 27 February 1795. In 1800 Matthew and Jonathan Raine were executors for John Warner, the radical Whig cleric and scholar. Politician, lawyer and judge Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland met Raine through his legal work on the Northumberland estate, and supported him as a parliamentary candidate for St Ives in 1802. At this point John Hammond, a Unitarian academic",Q19729014,200,1
"Daniel Ambrose (c. 1843 – 17 December 1895) was a medical practitioner and an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was born in Loughill Co Limerick and his parents were Stephen Ambrose, from Ardagh and Margaret Kennedy from Adare. He was elected as an Irish National Federation (Anti-Parnellite) MP for the South Louth constituency at the 1892 general election. He was re-elected at the 1895 general election, but died in office in December 1895. The by-election for his seat was won by the Anti-Parnellite Richard McGhee. His cousin, Robert Ambrose, also served as an Anti-Parnellite MP. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Daniel Ambrose",Q26753886,124,1
"Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet (8 January 1833 – 18 December 1888) was a British shipbuilder, under whose management the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde became the leading shipbuilding company in the world. He was later a Conservative Party politician. Career Pearce was born at Brompton near Chatham in Kent, the son of Joseph George Pearce. He trained as a shipwright and naval architect at the Chatham Dockyard. After supervising the construction of HMS Achilles , the first ironclad warship built in Chatham, he moved in 1863 to Scotland to take up the post of surveyor to the Lloyd's Register on the Clyde. His career then developed rapidly. A year after arriving on Clydeside, he became general manager of Robert Napier and Sons, where he designed innovative fast, transatlantic liners for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. In 1869 he became a partner in John Elder & Co, and after the retirement of the other partners he became the firm's sole owner in 1878. In 1886, spending more time on his political career in London, he converted the business to a limited company, the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. Pearce remained as chairman. Fairfield became a",Q7529726,200,0
"Lucius (McEdward) O'Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin (5 December 1800 – 22 March 1872), known as Sir Lucius O'Brien, 5th Baronet from 1837 to 1855, was an Irish politician and nobleman. He is remembered respectfully in County Clare for his relief work in the famine years. Biography He was born at Dromoland Castle in 1800, the eldest son of Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th Baronet and Charlotte Smith. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1825. In 1826, he replaced his father as Tory Member of Parliament for Clare, but was unseated in 1830 by the Whig candidates. He unsuccessfully contested the county again in 1835, but was appointed High Sheriff of Clare for that year instead. Upon the death of his father in 1837, he succeeded to the baronetcy, and he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Clare in 1843. He again contested Clare in 1847, topping the poll and ousting Cornelius O'Brien. In 1848, he published a book, Ireland in 1848: the late famine and the Poor Laws . During the same year, his brother William Smith O'Brien, a Liberal, led an abortive rebellion and narrowly escaped hanging. O'Brien did not contest Clare in 1852. In 1855, he",Q6697588,200,0
"James John O'Shee or Shee (3 November 1866 – 1 January 1946) usually known as J. J. O'Shee, was an Irish nationalist politician, solicitor, labour activist and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing the constituency of West Waterford from 1895 until 1918. Elected as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation member of the Irish Parliamentary Party he was one of the more socially radical members of the party. He co-founded and was secretary from 1894 of the Irish Land and Labour Association Origins O'Shee was born as John James Shee on 3 November 1866 at Newtown, near Carrick-on-Suir Co. Tipperary as the youngest of four sons of John Shee, a farmer, and his wife Mary (née Britton). He had five sisters all of whom became nuns. He attended the local national school, completing his education at Rockwell College and University College Dublin. He first served as a law apprentice with James O'Sullivan in Carraig-on-Suir before qualify as a solicitor in 1890. He subsequently opened his own practice in the town, establishing a branch office later in Clonmel. Shee changed his name in 1900 to O'Shee. Political activist While",Q6106129,200,0
"Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (15 March 1825 – 22 September 1881) was a British army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1880. Early life Jervis-White-Jervis was born at Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland on 15 March 1825. He was the third son of Sir Henry Jervis-White-Jervis, 2nd Baronet (1793–1869) and his wife Marian Campbell, the eldest daughter of William Campbell of Fairfield, Ayrshire. His paternal grandparents were Sir John Jervis-White-Jervis, 1st Baronet, and the former Mary Bradford. The progenitor of the family was John White, Esq., who married Lady Margaret Seymour, settled in Ireland during the reign of King Charles II, and purchased the Bally Ellis estate in County Wexford. White's son, also named John White, married Katherine Jervis (a daughter of Sir Humphrey Jervis, Lord Mayor of Dublin). Their son, John Jervis White, took on the Jervis name as part of his inheritance and became great-grandfather of the 1st Baronet. He was educated at Harrow School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Career He joined the Royal Artillery as 2nd lieutenant in December 1844. He became 1st Lieutenant in 1846 and captain in September 1853. He was employed on special service under the",Q5723929,200,0
"Sir Henry Ellis , KCB, PC (1 September 1788 – 28 September 1855) was a British diplomat and politician. Life He was an illegitimate son of Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire. In his career he served for six years in the civil service of the East India Company; and in the Bengal Presidency he held the post of private secretary to the president of the board of control. In 1814 he was sent to Persia as minister plenipotentiary ad interim, and returned from that country in the following year, having successfully negotiated a treaty of peace. In 1816 Ellis accompanied William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst on his embassy to China, in the capacity of third commissioner. On their return from China in HMS Alceste , Amherst and Ellis were wrecked off Borneo. They were forced to make for Java in an open boat, and reached Batavia after a voyage of several hundred miles. They went back to rescue the other survivors, in the Indiaman Ternate . Ellis reported that an impression could be produced at Beijing only by a knowledge of the military strength of the United Kingdom. Ellis's financial situation worsened after his father's death in 1816.",Q1606704,200,0
"Colonel Sir Frederick Winn Knight (9 May 1812 – 3 May 1897) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1885. Origins Frederick Knight was the eldest son of John Knight II (d.1850) of Lea Castle, Wolverley, (2 miles north of Kidderminster) Worcestershire and 26 miles east of Downton Castle) (built by his father John Knight I) and 52 Portland Place in London, by his wife Hon. Jane Elizabeth Allanson-Winn, daughter of George Allanson-Winn, 1st Baron Headley. His grandfather, John Knight I of Lea Castle was an ironmaster and the grandson of Richard Knight of Downton Castle, Downton on the Rock, Herefordshire, (about five miles west of Ludlow, Shropshire) a magnate in the iron industry. He had at least two brothers: Charles Allanson Knight (1814–1879) who married Jessie Ramsay (1828–1922), daughter of William Ramsay (1800–1881) (a.k.a. Innes) of Barra, Inverurie, and widow of Count Alexander de Polignac(d.pre-1862). His children were under the guardianship of the Fane Family of Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire, between 1876 and 1887. W.D. Fane wrote in his correspondence of Summer 1855 of visiting his friend ""Knight"" in Rome, probably at the house of John Knight II who had retired to",Q5498215,200,0
"John Penn (22 February 1760 – 21 June 1834) was an English politician and writer who was the chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1776. He and his cousin, John Penn (""John Penn, the Governor"") held unsold property, of 24,000,000 acres (97,000 km 2 ), which the Pennsylvania legislature confiscated after the American Revolution. Penn lived in Philadelphia for five years after the Revolution, from 1783 to 1788, building a country house just outside the city. He returned to Great Britain in 1789 after receiving his three-fourths portion of £130,000, the compensation for the proprietorship by the Pennsylvania government. He and his cousin, John Penn, who remained a resident in US, received compensation from Parliament for their losses in the former colony. In 1798, he was appointed as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and served as a Member of Parliament (1802–1805). He was appointed in 1805, as governor of the Isle of Portland. Also a writer, he published in a variety of genres. Life He was born in London, England, the son of Thomas Penn and his wife Lady Juliana Fermor Penn (the daughter of Thomas Fermor, first earl of Pomfret), elder brother to Granville Penn, and",Q6252493,200,0
"Ralph Ward Jackson (7 June 1806, Normanby – 6 August 1880, London) was a British railway promoter, entrepreneur and politician. He founded West Hartlepool, England in the 19th century. Life Son of William and Susanna Louisa Ward-Jackson, a Conservative, he was elected at the 1868 general election as the first the Member of Parliament for The Hartlepools, but was defeated at the 1874 general election. Ward Jackson Park, which is located on the westerly end of Elwick Road in Hartlepool is named in his memory. Family Jackson married in 1829 Susanna Swainson, daughter of the industrialist Charles Swainson. They had one son. References Waggott, Eric (1980). Jackson's Town: The Story of the Creation of West Hartlepool and the Success and downfall of its founder, Ralph Ward Jackson . Printability Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-9501306-1-3 . OCLC 8219630. External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ralph Ward Jackson Ralph Ward Jackson",Q7288235,150,0
"Robert Campbell (12 July 1811 – 1887) was a British Liberal Party politician, originally from Australia. He was born in Sydney, Australia, on 12 July 1811, the son of Scottish-born merchant. entrepreneur and pastoralist Robert Campbell (1789–1851). He married Anne Orr in Parramatta, New South Wales on 15 January 1835. They later moved to England. In 1859 he bought Buscot Park where he lived until his death in 1887. He was elected MP for Helston at a by-election in May 1866 but was unseated in July 1866. The by-election had originally recorded 153 votes for both him and his rival, William Brett, but Campbell was declared elected after the Returning officer (who was the father of his election agent) cast a vote for him, after consulting a legal textbook which suggested he could make the casting vote. A petition was lodged, and a committee decided the returning officer had no right to cast the vote and should have declared both candidates elected. However, on scrutiny one vote was taken from Campbell's total, leaving Brett elected alone. This election led to Parliament deciding that ""according to the law and usage of Parliament, it is the duty of the sheriff or other",Q26718782,200,0
Vere Fane (5 January 1785 – 18 January 1863) was an English politician in the 19th century. He was Tory Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis from 1818 to 1826. References,Q21548847,31,0
"Donald Crawford KC FRSE (5 May 1837–1 January 1919) was a Scottish advocate who became a United Kingdom Liberal MP. He sat for the constituency of Lanarkshire North-East from 1885 to 1895. Life He was born on 3 May 1837, the son of Alexander Crawford of Edinburgh and his wife, Sibella Maclean. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1847 to 1854, and attended Glasgow, Oxford and Heidelberg Universities. At Oxford, he studied at Balliol College from 1856 and was awarded a B.A. in 1860; his M.A. was granted in 1864. He became a Fellow of Lincoln College in 1861, retaining his Fellowship until 1882. Crawford was made an advocate in 1862 and, from 1880 to 1885, served as Secretary to the Lord Advocate of Scotland. In 1873, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert William Thomson, Thomas Croxen Archer, Francis Deas and John Hutton Balfour. In 1884, the Liberal President of the Local Government Board, Sir Charles Dilke, appointed Crawford to the Boundary Commission for Scotland, which was responsible for redrafting constituency boundaries in the wake of the Third Reform Act. At the time, Crawford was the political secretary to Sir",Q5294196,200,1
"Daniel(I) O’Connell (Irish: Dónall Ó Conaill ; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator , was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Ireland, down to the poorest class of tenant farmers secured the final instalment of Catholic emancipation in 1829 and allowed him to take a seat in the United Kingdom Parliament to which he had been twice elected. At Westminster, O'Connell championed liberal and reform causes (he was internationally renowned as an abolitionist) but he failed in his declared objective for Ireland—the repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and the restoration of the devolved Irish Parliament. Against the backdrop of a growing agrarian crisis and, in his final years, of the Great Famine, O'Connell contended with dissension at home. Criticism of his political compromises and of his system of patronage split the national political movement that he had singularly led. Early and professional life Kerry and France O'Connell was born at Carhan near Cahersiveen, County Kerry, to the O'Connells of Derrynane, a wealthy Roman Catholic family that, under the Penal Laws, had been able to retain",Q314917,200,0
"Sir James Fortescue Flannery, 1st Baronet (16 December 1851 – 5 October 1943) was an English engineer and naval architect, and Liberal Unionist (later Conservative Party) politician. Flannery was born in Liverpool, the son of Capt. John Flannery of Seacombe. Educated at the Liverpool College of Science and Victoria University, he worked in Birkenhead and was subsequently engaged by Sir Edward J Reid KCS later Chief Constructor of H.M Navy. He was head of Flannery, Baggally & Johnson Marine Engineering, which eventually opened offices in London, Liverpool and Rotterdam. and a Director of London and South Western Bank. Between 1900 and 1906 he was President of the Railway Clerks' Association. He was President of the Institute of Marine Engineers 1914, and later President of the Society of Consulting Engineers 1931. He was appointed J.P for Surrey 1892, for Kent in 1895, knighted in 1899, and appointed JP for Essex in 1904. He was elected at the 1895 general election as Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire, holding the seat until the 1906 general election. He returned to Parliament at the January 1910 election as Conservative Party MP for Maldon in Essex. In the latter constituency he fought the",Q6134097,200,0
"Walter John Stanton (24 March 1828 – 2 August 1913) was an English civil engineer, woollen manufacturer and a Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons briefly in 1874 and from 1880 to 1885. He was also one of the successors to (Marling School), Stroud Early life Stanton was the son of Charles Stanton of Upfield Stroud and his wife Martha Holbrow, daughter of Thomas Holbrow. His uncle William Henry Stanton had been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Stroud from 1841 to 1852. He was educated at Westminster School and originally became a civil engineer, studying under Joseph Locke. Career Later he became a woollen manufacturer and a J.P. for Gloucestershire and a captain in the 2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers. From 1861 to 1874 he was chairman of the Stroud Local Board. Along with other members of his family, he ran a major carpet-manufacturing business in Shrewsbury. At the 1874 general election Stanton was elected as an MP for the borough of Stroud, but his election was voided on petition. The election court ruled that his agent had openly used treating and entertainments. His cousin Alfred Stanton was elected in his place, and",Q7965281,200,0
"Colonel John McAusland Denny (29 November 1858 – 9 December 1922) was a Scottish businessman and Conservative Party politician. Denny was born in Helenslee, Dumbarton, one of eight sons of Dr. Peter Denny. His grandfather William Denny founded the family shipbuilding firm William Denny and Brothers. He was educated at Dumbarton Academy and in Lausanne and became a shipbuilder and a director of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway company. He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock Burghs. and re-elected in 1900, holding the seat until standing down at the 1906 general election. He was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage. During the First World War, he was chairman of the Dumbartonshire Territorial Force Association, and became an honorary colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which he was largely responsible for raising. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1917 New Year Honours. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Denny",Q16031716,177,0
"Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart (13 September 1827 – 12 October 1895), was a British soldier, clergyman, politician, Egyptologist, and author. Parentage He was the son of Henry Villiers-Stuart, 1st and last Baron Stuart de Decies, son of Lord Henry Stuart and his wife, Lady Gertrude Amelia, daughter of George Mason-Villiers, 2nd Earl Grandison. His paternal great-grandfather was John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, son of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. Henry Villiers-Stuart had a younger sister, Pauline, later Lady Wheeler Cuffe (died 5 July 1895). His mother was Theresia Pauline (née Ott), an Austrian Roman Catholic from Vienna. His parents married on 12 January 1826 in a Roman Catholic service at St James's, Spanish Place, London, and also under Scottish law, but there was uncertainty over whether Theresia was free to marry. As a result of this confusion the younger Henry Villiers-Stuart, after the death of his father in 1874, was unable to establish his claim to the peerage and become the 2nd Baron Stuart de Decies. Theresia's married name became Villiers-Stuart, and, as a result of her marriage, she was styled as Baroness Stuart de Decies on 10 March 1839. She died on 7 August 1867 at",Q5729559,200,1
"Daniel Grant (26 September 1826 - ?) was an English printer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Grant was the son of Captain Daniel Grant of South Shields. He was educated at the Upper School of the Royal Hospital Greenwich. He founded the printing firm of Grant and Co of Turnmill Street, Clerkenwell and was principal partner for many years. He was a member of the Sylvan Debating Club. In 1868 and 1874 Grant stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Marylebone. At the 1880 general election he was elected one of two Members of parliament for Marylebone and held the seat until 1885. Following the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the old constituency of Marylebone was divided into a number of single-member constituencies. At the 1885 general election Grant was the Liberal candidate at Marylebone East, but was defeated by his Conservative opponent, Lord Charles Beresford. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Daniel Grant",Q5217335,164,0
"John Baker (c. 1754 - 20 January 1831) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom in 1796 and 1797 and from 1802 to 1818. Baker was the son of George Baker, a surgeon and medical practitioner of Canterbury. The family had long lived in Canterbury. His father left him a considerable fortune which he enlarged by marriage. He lived at Hawkhurst Lodge, in the Weald of Kent, and became one of the largest hop-planters in the district. Later he established the Union Bank at Canterbury and moved to St Stephen's, near there. He became active in local politics and was Sheriff of Canterbury for 1786–87. In 1796, Baker was elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury on what was called the independent interest. He headed the poll with 774 votes but the election was declared void on petition under the provisions of the Treating Act. At the second election in March 1797 he again had a majority of votes, ""although not one public-house had been opened in their interest, nor a single cockade distributed"". However a protest was entered against the eligibility of the two elected MPs and",Q6220362,200,1
"William Trant Fagan (31 January 1801 – 16 May 1859) was an Irish writer and Member of Parliament (MP) from Cork. Family Fagan was the son of James Fagan and his wife Ellen Trust. On 21 June 1827, he married Mary Addis, the daughter of Charles Addis; they had four children, and lived at Feltrim in Cork. Career At the general election in August 1847 he was elected as one of the two Repeal Association MPs for Cork City. defeating the sitting Repeal MP Alexander McCarthy and taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Later that year, he published ""The life and times of Daniel O'Connell"" , prefacing the book with an address ""To The people of Ireland"" in which he described O'Connell as ""the greatest man that this, or any other country, ever produced"". Fagan resigned from Parliament on 14 April 1851 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds to become a Commissioner of Insolvency. He stood again as an independent Whig at the general election in July 1852, pledged to support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition. He was re-elected in 1857 and at the",Q8019496,200,0
"Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (28 April 1805 – 31 January 1876) was an English industrialist, railway entrepreneur and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1847 and 1868. Early life Jackson was the 7th son of Peter Jackson of Warrington and his wife Sarah Mather. His father was a surgeon, man-midwife and pharmacist and a respected member of the business community of Warrington, but died in 1811 leaving his large family impoverished. Peter Jackson had been the seventh son of an enterprising Middlewich businessman, James Jackson and his wife Martha Pickmore. The family, hailing from Cheshire, was originally called Oulton, but became 'Jackson' through marriage with a woman of property in the 17th century. Jackson's mother was descended from the Mathers of Lowton whose family included Cotton Mather and Richard Mather. Business career Jackson was sent to work at an ironmongers in Ranelagh Street in Birkenhead before he was twelve. There he had the chance to read and develop his own education, as well as buying up the shop when the business went bankrupt. The shop was only a few doors away from the home of the artist William Daniels. Jackson became a generous patron of",Q7529639,200,1
"Frederick Edward Blackett Beaumont (22 October 1833 – 20 August 1899) was a British Army officer and politician. A member of the Royal Engineers, he produced several inventions, including a tunnel boring machine which bore his name, and the Beaumont–Adams revolver. Early life Beaumont was the son of Edward Blackett Beaumont and Jane Lee. He was born in Darfield, South Yorkshire and educated at the Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, England. Career Beaumont served in the Royal Engineers and was a contemporary of General Charles George Gordon; his name appeared directly before Gordon's in the Army Lists from the date of their first commissioning on 23 June 1852. As a lieutenant, Beaumont saw service during the Crimean War, and was one of only a small number of British officers who served with Turkish forces along the Danube, serving with the (local) rank of Captain in the Turkish Contingent Engineers, for which service he was awarded the Turkish Crimean War medal rather than the British Crimean War Medal. In 1858, Beaumont again saw action in the Indian Mutiny, during which he served on the staff of the Royal Engineers, distinguishing himself on 14 March 1858 at Lucknow and being awarded",Q5497357,200,0
"Mark Philips (4 November 1800 – 23 December 1873) was an English Liberal Party politician, and one of the first pair of Members of Parliament for Manchester after the Great Reform Act. Early life and family Mark Philips was born at Philips Park, Whitefield, Lancashire, the son of Robert Philips, a prosperous merchant and Anne Needham. He was educated at the Manchester Academy while it was in York and then at the University of Glasgow. His younger brother, Robert Needham Philips, was MP for Bury and other members of his extended family were also elected to the House of Commons; all of them, as with Mark, supported the ideals of Manchesterism. He has been described as a ""radical entrepreneur"" and campaigned in favour of causes promoting non-sectarianism before entering the House of Commons. Member of Parliament The town of Manchester was deprived of its parliamentary representation in 1660 in reprisal for its support of the Parliamentarian faction during the English Civil War. Representation was only restored following the Great Reform Act of 1832. Philips and Charles Poulett Thomson were the first pair of MPs, elected in that year. He represented the city in Parliament until 1847. He was an active",Q6769251,200,0
"Sir William Grantham (1835–1911) was a British barrister, Member of Parliament for 12 years for successive areas which took in Croydon then, from 1886, High Court judge. Biography Grantham was born on 23 October 1835 in Lewes, Sussex, England to George Grantham and Sarah Grantham (née Verrall). He was educated at King's College School, and was called to the bar in 1863 at Inner Temple. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1877. Grantham married Emma L Wilson on 15 February 1865 in Sussex, England. The couple had seven children. His eldest son's wife was granddaughter of British astronomer and chemist Warren de la Rue. Legacy He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Eastern from 1874 to 1885 and was elected as for Croydon in 1885. He was knighted that year. In parliament he spoke 184 times, the last of which in 1885, and ardently opposed Gladstone. He resigned in 1886 on appointment as a judge of the Queen's Bench Division. He came to chair the East Sussex Quarter Sessions. As a judge he was seen as competent but with a weakness for commenting on cases in a way that brought him into conflict with various groups, a",Q8010118,200,1
"John Benjamin Smith (7 February 1794 – 15 September 1879) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1847 to 1874. Life Smith was the son of Benjamin Smith, a merchant of Manchester. He was himself a merchant and was president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce from 1839 to 1841. He was the first chairman of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and author of several economics works. Smith stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Blackburn in 1837, and at Walsall and Dundee in 1841. In 1847 he was elected Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs and held the seat until July 1852. He was then elected MP for Stockport and held the seat until 1874. Smith lived at King's Ride, Ascot, Berkshire where he died aged 85. In 1841 Smith married Jemina Durning, eldest daughter of William Durning, from a wealthy well-established Liverpool family. Before her marriage, she had lived with her sister Emma and her husband George Holt, parents of the merchant of that name. John Benjamin Smith is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Daughters and legacy The Smiths had two daughters, Jemina and",Q15434224,200,0
"Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1 May 1818 – 29 May 1898) was a British scientist and Liberal politician who was Postmaster-General from 1873 to 1874. Early life Playfair was born at Chunar, Bengal, the son of George Playfair (1782-1846), the chief inspector-general of hospitals in that region, and Janet Ross (1795-1862), daughter of John Ross. The family was fairly middle class with strong academic roots in University of St Andrews, his grandfather being Rev Prof James Playfair, Principal of the University of St Andrews. All of Playfair's siblings were sent back to Scotland to avoid the hazards of an Indian upbringing. Playfair was named after his uncle, Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, and was educated at the University of St Andrews, the Andersonian Institute in Glasgow, and the University of Edinburgh. After going to Calcutta at the end of 1837, he became private laboratory assistant to Thomas Graham at University College, London, and in 1839 went to work under Justus Liebig at the University of Giessen. Early career After returning to Britain, Playfair became manager of a calico works in Primrose, near Clitheroe, and in 1843 was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Manchester Institution, where he was assisted",Q333737,200,1
"Sir Geers Henry Cotterell, 3rd Baronet (22 August 1834 – 17 March 1900) was a Whig politician. Early life Cotterell was the second son of Sir John Henry Cotterell (who had died before his birth and was heir apparent to Sir John Cotterell, 1st Baronet) and Hon. Pyne Jesse Trevor, daughter of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre and Pyne Crosbie. After his father's death, his mother married Granville Harcourt Vernon, MP, son of Most Rev. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt and Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, in 1845. He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, and succeeded to the Baronetage of Garnons on 17 February 1847, upon the death of his brother John Henry Cotterell. Career Cotterell was elected Whig MP for Herefordshire at the 1857 general election and held the seat until 1859, when he stood down. Outside of politics, Cotterell was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1863, as well as a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for the same county. Personal life He married in 1865 Honorable Katherine Margaret Airey, daughter of Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey, and Harriet Mary Evard Talbot. The Hon. Lady Cotterell died in 1896. They had at least three children: John Richard",Q26247955,200,0
"Charles Waring (1827 – 26 August 1887) was a Liberal Party and Liberal Unionist Party politician. Waring was elected Liberal MP for Poole in 1865 but, when the seat was reduced to one member in 1868, he failed to retain the seat. He stood again in 1874, and was elected, but was unseated when the election was declared void on petition after ""corrupt conduct and treating"". He stood again for the seat in 1880, but was unsuccessful. Shortly before his death, Waring joined the Liberal Unionist Party. His son, Walter Waring, was later elected as the Liberal MP for Banffshire at a by-election in 1907. Waring was the brother of William and Henry Waring, who formed railway engineering firm Waring Brothers in 1841. During his life, Waring was made a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, and a Chevalier of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. He also often contributed to political journal The Fortnightly Review, writing on topics such as the railway industry and the Suez Canal. On 1 April 1851, he was elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. References External links Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Waring",Q26235811,197,0