William Thackeray Marriott
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in 1883Sir William Thackeray Marriott QC (1834 – 27 July 1903), was a British barrister and Liberal and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1893.
Life
Marriott was the third son of Christopher Marriott, of
House of Commons and offered himself for re-election as a Conservative
, and was re-elected in March 1884.
When the Conservatives came to power in 1885 under
1893 Irish Home Rule Bill brought forward by Gladstone. The latter year Marriott resigned his seat in Parliament in order to resume practice at the parliamentary bar. He later emigrated to South Africa
.
Marriott married Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Captain Tennant, of Need wood House, Hampshire, in 1872. He died in July 1903.
References
- ^ "Marriott, William Thackeray (MRT854WT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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