About John Ffolliott
Lived 1798 – 1868 (aged 69). John Ffolliott was a British politician.
John Ffolliott (28 December 1798 – 11 February 1868) was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament.
Biography He was the eldest son of John Ffolliott of Hollybrook House, County Sligo, by his wife Frances, sister of Sir William Jackson Homan, 1st Baronet.
Ffolliott sat in Parliament for County Sligo from September 1841. He was a Conservative, and in 1846 he voted in favour of agricultural protection. He sat until shortly before 1 March 1850, when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
On 17 December 1822 Ffolliott married Maria Lucy, daughter of Herbert Rawson Stepney of Durrow, King's County, by his wife Alicia Vincentia, daughter of Henry Peisley L'Estrange of Moystown, King's County. They had a son John, who succeeded to Hollybrook House, and a daughter Zaida Maria, who married on 15 June 1847 Sir Thomas Erskine, 2nd Baronet, of Cambo.
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Who was John Ffolliott?
Irish landowner/MP
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John Ffolliott was born on 28 December 1798 in County Sligo.
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John Ffolliott died on 11 February 1868.
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John Ffolliott was a politician.
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John Ffolliott was British.
Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: John Ffolliott (Conservative MP)
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