UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 1 October 1796, London

Died: 18 September 1880

Knighted - 1845

Member of Privy Council - 1866

son of Robert Hawke Kelly

son of Isabella Fordyce

Lincoln's Inn

Lawyer

12 December 1832	Ipswich	Tory	267	28.02
8 January 1835	Ipswich	Conservative Party	557	51.10
9 June 1835 Petition - election declared void.
27 July 1837	Ipswich	Conservative Party	593	46.99
24 February 1838 Petition - Henry Tufnell unseated. FitzRoy Kelly declared elected.
3 July 1841	Ipswich	Conservative Party	611	48.26
21 March 1843	Cambridge	Conservative Party	713	51.18
July 1845 Resignation of Sir Fitzroy Kelly on appointment as Solicitor-General.
16 July 1845	Cambridge	Conservative Party	746	50.58
30 July 1847	Lyme Regis	Conservative Party	143	49.48
10 April 1852	Harwich	Conservative Party	Unopposed
29 April 1852 Sir Fitzroy Kelly resigns in order to contest Eastern Suffolk.
1 May 1852	Eastern Suffolk	Conservative Party	Unopposed
14 July 1852	Eastern Suffolk	Conservative Party	Unopposed
1 April 1857	Eastern Suffolk	Conservative Party	Unopposed
21 February 1858 Resignation of Sir Fitzroy Kelly on appointment as Attorney-General.
6 March 1858	Eastern Suffolk	Conservative Party	Unopposed
4 May 1859	Eastern Suffolk	Conservative Party	2,517	56.18
17 July 1865	Eastern Suffolk	Conservative Party	Unopposed
1866 Resignation of Sir Fitzroy Kelly on appointment as Chief Justice of the Court of the Exchequer.