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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John Eardley Wilmot was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1776 to 1796.
Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet
…of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire and then as 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…
John Eardley Wilmot painted by Benjamin West in 1812 (detail). The history painting Reception of the American Loyalists is visible in the background.