Robert Hildyard (MP) explained

Robert Charles Hildyard
Office:Member of Parliament
for Whitehaven
Term Start:28 August 1847
Term End:7 December 1857
Predecessor:Matthias Attwood
Successor:George Lyall
Birth Date:1800
Nationality:British
Party:Conservative
Parents:Son of Reverend William Hildyard (Hildyards of Winestead), older brother of Henry Hildyard, father of Lucy Harriette Robinson (nee Hildyard) - have portrait.

Robert Charles Hildyard (1800 – 7 December 1857)[1] was a British Conservative politician.

Hildyard was born in Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1800. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (then known as Katharine Hall), and was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1824. He was first elected Conservative MP for Whitehaven at the 1847 general election and held the seat until his death in 1857.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "W" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 22 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180722125159/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm. 22 July 2018 . usurped . 13 June 2017 .
  2. 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.