UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 21 October 1799, Tickhill, Yorkshire

Died: 5 September 1881

Member of Privy Council - 1853

husband of Eliza Charlotte Vernon

Repton School

Brasenose College, Oxford

Barrister

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (Government Whip)	18 July 1837	23 June 1841
First Secretary to the Admiralty	1841	1841
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	7 July 1846	May 1849
First Secretary to the Admiralty	1849	1852

15 December 1832	Sheffield	Whig	1,515	49.57
12 January 1835	Sheffield	Whig	1,607	53.82
1836 Resignation of John Parker on appointment as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
22 August 1836	Sheffield	Whig	414	100.00
29 July 1837	Sheffield	Whig	2,186	80.96
2 July 1841	Sheffield	Whig	1,849	80.15
29 July 1847	Sheffield	Whig	1,125	77.91
7 July 1852	Sheffield	Whig	1,580	47.12