UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 2 July 1780

Died: 31 January 1863

3rd Marquess of Lansdowne - 15 November 1809

4th Earl of Kerry - 4 July 1818

Knighted - 5 February 1836

Member of Privy Council - 5 February 1806

son of Lady Louisa Fitzpatrick

husband of Lady Louisa Emma Fox Strangways

Westminster School (1795 -)

Edinburgh University (1797 - 1798)

Trinity College, Cambridge (1798 -)

Chancellor of the Exchequer	February 1806	March 1807
Minister without Portfolio	May 1827	July 1827
Secretary of State for the Home Department	July 1827	January 1828
Lord President of the Council	November 1830	November 1834
Lord President of the Council	April 1835	September 1841
Lord President of the Council	July 1846	February 1852
Minister without Portfolio	December 1852	February 1858

7 July 1802	Calne	Whig	Unopposed
25 January 1806 Resignation of Lord Henry Petty on appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
7 February 1806	Cambridge University		331	54.80
29 October 1806	Cambridge University		Unopposed
8 May 1807	Cambridge University		265	43.77
11 May 1807	Camelford	Whig	Unopposed
15 November 1809 Succession of Lord Henry Petty to the Peerage - 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne.