Frederick Spinks | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Oldham |
Term Start: | 6 February 1874 |
Term End: | 2 April 1880 |
Alongside: | John Morgan Cobbett (1874–1877) J. T. Hibbert (1877–1880) |
Predecessor: | John Morgan Cobbett J. T. Hibbert |
Successor: | J. T. Hibbert Edward Stanley |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1816 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Frederick Lowten Spinks (27 December 1816 – 27 December 1899), known as Serjeant Spinks, was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician.
He was the last serjeant-at-law at the English bar (the last English serjeant, was Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, who was a judge). The legal historian Patrick Polden described him as "rather undistinguished".[1]
Spinks first stood for election in Oldham at the 1865 general election, but was unsuccessful, and this fate was repeated in 1868. He finally secured the seat in 1874, but was defeated again in 1880.[2]