About Thomas Houldsworth
Lived 1771 – 1852 (aged 80). Thomas Houldsworth was a British politician.
Thomas Houldsworth (13 September 1771 – 1 September 1852) was a Tory, and then Conservative Party, politician in England. He was a member of parliament (MP) for 34 years, from 1818 to 1852.
Houldsworth MP for Pontefract from 1818 to 1830, and then for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1830 until the borough was disenfranchised at 1832 general election. He died two months later, aged 80.
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British politician
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Thomas Houldsworth was born on 13 September 1771.
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Thomas Houldsworth died on 1 September 1852.
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