William Holmes (politician)
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William Holmes was an Irish Tory and Conservative politician in the United Kingdom in the early nineteenth century. He was an MP for 28 years.
William Holmes, 1834 lithograph
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
Treasurer of the Ordnance
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The Treasurer of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance in the United Kingdom, the office being created in 1670. The office was abolished in 1836 and its duties merged wi
William Holmes (politician)
…political patronage. After the Reform Act Holmes was out of the Commons for five years, but returned in 1837 as MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed. Holmes was also Treasurer of the Ordnance from 1818 to 1831. His wife was Helen Tew, Dowager Lady Stronge (1769–1852), widow of Sir James Stronge, 1st Baronet of Tynan Abbey, County Armagh…
Board of Ordnance Arms preserved on a gun tampion in Gibraltar