John Nicholas Fazakerley (7 March 1787 – 16 July 1852) was a British Whig[1] politician. He was Member of Parliament for Lincoln (1812–18), Great Grimsby (1818–20), Tavistock (1820), Lincoln again (1826–30) and City of Peterborough (1830–41).
He was elected at the 1812 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Lincoln,and held the seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Great Grimsby. He held that seat until the 1820 general election, when was returned for Tavistock,[2] but he resigned his seat two months later, in May 1820, by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.
Fazakerley returned to the Commons after a six-year absence when he was returned at the 1826 general election as MP for Lincoln.He did not contest the seat at the 1830 election, but was returned at a by-election in 1830 as MP for the City of Peterborough.He sat for Peterborough until the 1841 election, when he retired from Parliament.[3]
He met the Emperor of the French Napoleon with Lord John Russell on Elba in the winter of 1814.[4] [5]