Henry Hodgetts-Foley
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Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts-Foley of
Prestwood House, then in Kingswinford
parish (9 December 1828 – 23 April 1894) was a British MP.
He was the son of
Margaret Kemble, and it is through Kemble that he is a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family from colonial British North America
.
He represented South Staffordshire in Parliament from 1857–1868. He inherited the Prestwood estate in Kinver (also partly then in Kingswinford parish) from his father in 1861. He was appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1877. His estate by the 1880s generated close to £7000 a year.[2]
He married Jane Frances Anne Vivian, the daughter of the
John Paul Foley
is a grandson of Paul.
External links
References
- ^ Burke's Peerage 2003, page 1448
- ^ Bateman, John (1883). The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland; a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards ... also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, their acreage and income from land culled from The modern Domesday book . Robarts - University of Toronto. London, Harrison.