Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet was a politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire and then as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.
John Eardley Wilmot
Dr. Stephen Lushington and Eardley-Wilmot at the 1840 meeting on anti-slavery (Detail from a larger painting).
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Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC SL was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771.
Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet
…Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (later called Tasmania). Eardley-Wilmot was the son of John Eardley Wilmot (1748–1815), barrister, and grandson of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He was created a baronet in 1821 and in 1822 published An Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries. He was a member…
Portrait by Francesco Bartolozzi after Joshua Reynolds