Humphrey Brown Explained

Humphrey Brown
Office:	Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury
Term Start:	28 July 1847
Term End:	28 March 1857
Alongside:	John Martin
Predecessor:	William Dowdeswell John Martin
Successor:	Frederick Lygon John Martin
Birth Date:	1803
Nationality:	British
Party:	Whig

Humphrey Brown (1803 – 6 June 1860)^[1] was a British Whig politician.^{[2] [3]}

Brown was first elected Whig MP for Tewkesbury at the 1847 general election and held the seat until 1857, when he was defeated. Although he attempted to regain the seat at a by-election in 1859—caused by the appointment of Frederick Lygon as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty–he was unsuccessful.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "T" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 15 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180715114458/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Tcommons1.htm . 15 July 2018 . usurped . 7 September 2017 .
2. News: Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard . 15 July 2018 . 10 August 1847 . 2–3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
3. News: Worcester Journal . 15 July 2018 . 15 July 1847 . 3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
4. Book: Craig. F. W. S.. F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885. 1977. Macmillan Press. London. 978-1-349-02349-3. 1st. e-book . 282–283.