Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Francis John Foljambe | |
Honorific Suffix: | PC |
Office: | Member of Parliament for East Retford |
Term Start: | 1857 |
Term End: | 1885 |
Alongside: | The Viscount Galway, William Beckett-Denison, Frederick Mappin |
Successor: | Constituency abolished |
Birth Name: | Francis John Savile Foljambe |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1830 |
Birth Place: | Worksop, Nottinghamshire |
Alma Mater: | Christ Church, Oxford |
Party: | Liberal |
Parents: | George Savile Foljambe Harriet Emily Mary Milner |
Relations: | Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool (half-brother) Edmond Foljambe (grandson) |
Francis John Savile Foljambe (9 April 1830 – 5 February 1917) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament.
Foljambe was born at Osberton Hall, near Worksop, Nottinghamshire on 9 April 1830. He was the eldest son and heir of George Savile Foljambe[1] and Harriet Emily Mary Milner (a daughter of Sir William Milner, 4th Baronet). After his mother's death, his father remarried to Selina, Viscountess Milton, widow of William Charles FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton (son of the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam) and daughter of Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool. From this marriage, he had a younger half-brother, fellow Liberal politician Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool,[2] and a step-sister, Hon. Mary Selina Charlotte Fitzwilliam, who later married Henry Portman, 2nd Viscount Portman.[3]
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Foljambe was elected as a Member of Parliament for East Retford in the 1857 general election. He was re-elected at every general election until the 1885 election, when the seat was abolished. He owned about 14500acres of land and was a member of Brooks's. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1895.[4]
In 1889, he succeeded Antony Gibbs as the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and was, in turn, succeeded by Sir Charles Seely.
On 20 February 1856, he married Lady Gertrude Emily Acheson, eldest daughter of Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford and Lady Theodosia Brabazon (daughter of John Brabazon, 10th Earl of Meath). Together, they had three sons, including:[5]
Foljambe died on 5 February 1917.[9] His widow Lady Gertrude Foljambe died on 17 December 1927.[10]
Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of cricketer Edmond Walter Savile Foljambe (1890–1960), a soldier during World War I who married Judith Harriet Wright (daughter of the first-class cricketer H. FitzHerbert Wright, who was also the brother-in-law of his uncle Godfrey) in 1940.[11]