About Thomas Tyrwhitt
Lived 1762 – 1833 (aged 70–71). Thomas Tyrwhitt was a British politician.
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt (1762 – 24 February 1833) was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1796 to 1812.
Career Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, after serving as private secretary to the Prince of Wales, Tyrwhitt was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Okehampton in 1796. Tyrwhitt was responsible for the construction of several roads across Dartmoor, a hamlet called Princetown named in honour of the Prince of Wales, a prison for prisoners of war captured during the Napoleonic Wars now known as HM Prison Dartmoor, as well as the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Portarlington in 1802 and Plymouth in 1806.
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English politician (1762–1833)
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Thomas Tyrwhitt died on 24 February 1833.
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Thomas Tyrwhitt was a politician.
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