James Halse
James Halse (bapt. 28 January 1769 – 14 May 1838)[1] was an English lawyer and wealthy businessman in Cornwall. He was also a Tory (later Conservative) politician.
Halse settled in
He used the Consols mine to create a political base for himself, by building the village of Halsetown to accommodate the mine-workers. The village was within the boundaries of the parliamentary borough of St Ives, allowing Halse patronage of the borough's two seats in Parliament.[2]
At the
He was defeated at the 1830 election by William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, nephew of the Duke of Wellington, but regained the seat in 1831 and held it until his death.[2] In 1835, he was blackballed by the recently created St. Ives Library and Institution.[3]
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
- ^ a b c d Jenkins, Terry (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.). HALSE, James (1769-1838), of St. Ives, Cornw. and 25 Half Moon Street, Mdx. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE - Multum in Parvo". The Cornwall Chronicle. 16 April 1836. p. 3.
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