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George Repton

George Repton

British politician

For the architect, his father, see George Stanley Repton.

George William John Repton (1818 – 30 August 1906)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician[2] who held a seat in the House of Commons for most of the period from 1841 to 1885, first as a Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans[3] and then for Warwick.[1]

Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford; Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote; George William John Repton by Camille Silvy

Family

Repton was the son of George Stanley Repton and his wife Lady Elizabeth, daughter of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon.[2]

He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1838,[4] and on 5 September 1848 he married Lady Jane Seymour FitzGerald, the only daughter of the Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster, who died on 3 November 1898.[2]

His address was listed in 1881 as Odell Castle, Bedford.[2]

Career

Repton was elected at the 1841 general election as an MP for the borough of St Albans in Hertfordshire,[5][6] where he was re-elected in 1847.[6][7] However, a Royal Commission found evidence of extensive bribery in elections at the borough, which was disenfranchised in 1852.[6]

He was returned at the 1852 general election as an MP for the borough of Warwick,[8][9] where he was re-elected in 1857, 1859, and 1865, but did not stand in 1868.[9] He was again returned to the Commons from Warwick at the 1874 general election,[10] re-elected in 1880,[11] and retired from Parliament when the parliamentary borough of Warwick was abolished at the 1885 general election.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
  2. [2]
    Mair, Robert Henry (1881). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881. London: Dean & Son. p. 259.
  3. [3]
    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
  4. [4]
    Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Repton, George William John" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. [5]
    "No. 19999". The London Gazette. 16 July 1841. p. 1856.
  6. [6]
    Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 261. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  7. [7]
    "No. 20762". The London Gazette. 6 August 1847. p. 2876.
  8. [8]
    "No. 21343". The London Gazette. 27 July 1852. p. 2072.
  9. [9]
    Craig, pp. 320–321
  10. [10]
    "No. 24064". The London Gazette. 10 February 1874. p. 594.
  11. [11]
    "No. 24829". The London Gazette. 2 April 1880. p. 2358.
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