William Meeke Explained

William Meeke
Office1:Member of Parliament for Penryn
Term1:1796-1800
1801–1802
Birth Date:3 January 1758
Education:Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge

William Meeke (3 January 1758 – 15 July 1830) was a Member of Parliament for Callan in the Irish Parliament from 1790 to 1797[1] and for Penryn, Cornwall, firstly in the House of Commons of Great Britain (1796–1800) and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (1801–1802).[2]

The son of Joseph Easton Meeke of Rotherhithe by his wife Suffina, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge from 1800 to 1807, when he married Mary Kelly. His sister Elizabeth married the MP Samuel Farmer.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Irish House of Commons 1692–1800. https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm. 7 June 2008. Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. usurped. 19 January 2012.
  2. Web site: Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1). https://web.archive.org/web/20080928062620/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm. 28 September 2008. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs. usurped. 2 June 2011.
  3. Web site: Meeke, William (1758–1830), of Beddington, Surr., History of Parliament Online. 21 May 2015.