Frederick Polhill

Frederick Polhill (2 July 1798 – 20 September 1848) was a British Conservative and Tory politician.

He was the third son of John Polhill and Mary Bennett (their second son Charles predeceased his father, and their first son Thomas died six weeks after his father). His grandfather was Nathaniel Polhill. Frederick was baptised on 30 July 1798 at St Mary, St Marylebone Road, London. He married Frances Margaretta Deakin, daughter of John Deakin and Anna Maria Beauvoir of Bagthorpe House, Basford, Nottinghamshire, on 6 January 1824 at Basford. Frances was baptised at Basford on 30 January 1803.

He served in the 1st. King's Dragoon Guards. After his father's death in October 1828, he assumed the management for the family seat, Howbury Hall in Renholm.

Polhill first became a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford at the 1830 general election, and held the seat until the 1832 general election when he was defeated. He returned to the seat at the 1835 general election as a Conservative and held it until 1847, when he was again defeated.

He married Frances Margarette Deakin. Their son was Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner, who also became a Member of Parliament. Frederick senior formally separated from his wife in April 1836, who later remarried. He moved in with Mary Ann Jeans. They had three illegitimate children.