About Joseph Cheney Bolton
Lived 1819 – 1901 (aged 81–82). Joseph Cheney Bolton was a British politician.
Joseph Cheney Bolton (1819 – 14 March 1901) was a Scottish merchant and a Liberal Party politician.
As a partner in the firm of Ker, Bolton, & Co., East India merchants, of Glasgow and London, he was a J.P. for Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire.
At the 1874 general election Bolton stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in the Glasgow constituency, where he won less than 1% of the votes. However, at the next general election, 1880, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirlingshire.
Bolton died at the age of 81.
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