William Rashleigh (MP for Fowey)
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William Rashleigh (11 January 1777 – 14 May 1855)[1] was an English politician and landowner from Cornwall.
Rashleigh was the son of Reverend Jonathan Rashleigh of Silverton, Devon, who was the third son of Jonathan Rashleigh MP and brother of Philip Rashleigh.[2]
He was Mayor of Lostwithiel 1802 and 1808, and in 1811 he inherited the vast Menabilly estate. This gave him control of the Rashleigh family's pocket borough of Fowey, and at the 1812 general election he returned himself as Member of Parliament (MP) for Fowey. He sold the control of the borough in 1817, and at the 1818 general election he retired from the House of Commons.[2]
He was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1820–21.[2]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F" [self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Rashleigh
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Fowey 1812 – 1818 With: Robert Wigram (junior) |
Succeeded by Hon. James Hamilton Stanhope George Lucy |
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