Pontefract (constituency)
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Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons briefly in the
Hugh Childers
Harold Reckitt
T. W. Nussey
Compton-Rickett
John Charles George Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough, styled Viscount Pollington between 1830 and 1860, was a British peer and Tory politician. He impressed his friends enough to be twice fictionalised,
Pontefract (constituency)
…Tory 1826 Le Gendre Starkie Tory 1830 Hon. Henry Stafford-Jerningham Whig Sir Culling Eardley, Bt. Tory 1831 John Savile Tory 1832 John Gully Whig 1835 John Savile Conservative 1837 Richard Monckton Milnes Conservative William Stanley-Massey-Stanley Whig 1841 John Savile Conservative 1847 Samuel Martin Whig 1851…
Monument in St Raphael's Church, Surbiton, Surrey, to John Savile, 4th Earl Mexborough
John Savile, the future 4th Earl of Mexborough, with his mother Lady Anne Yorke (1783 - 1870), (then Viscountess Pollington, later Countess of Mexborough). Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, Moretti Fine Art collection, London