William Blamire

William Blamire (13 April 1790 – 12 January 1862) was an English gentleman farmer and Whig politician.

Education He was born, on 13 April 1790, at The Oaks, Dalston, Cumberland.

Blamire was baptised in Dalston by the philosopher William Paley, who was the vicar there, by whom he was later privately tutored. he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he took no degree.

When he was elected to the House of Commons in 1831 as MP for Cumberland, The Commission reported in 1851 and provoked various new acts and reforms. Sir Robert Peel was impressed with Blamire's industriousness and described him as ‘that indefatigable public servant’. Blamire and his wife had no children.

Illness Blamire suffered paralysis of his right arm from 1847, after which he required the assistance of two secretaries to take dictation.