Robert Pulsford | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Hereford |
Term Start: | 5 October 1841 |
Term End: | 31 July 1847 |
Predecessor: | Edward Clive Henry William Hobhouse |
Successor: | Robert Price Henry Morgan-Clifford |
Alongside: | Robert Price (1845–1847) Edward Clive (1841–1845) |
Birth Date: | 1814 |
Death Place: | Hennock, Devon, England |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Whig |
Robert Pulsford (1814 – 3 June 1888)[1] was a British Whig politician.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Baptised on 21 April 1815 at Church of St John-at-Hackney, Pulsford was the son of William Pulsford and Martha, daughter of William Hobson. He died in 1888 at Hennock, Devon, leaving £192,468 to three sons and five daughters.[5]
Pulsford was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Hereford at a by-election in 1841—caused by the resignation of Henry William Hobhouse—and held the seat until 1847 when he did not seek re-election.[4] [6]