Sunday 19 May 2013
152 John Warre
Constituency : Lostwithiel 1812-18 (Tory ), Taunton 1820-6 , Hastings 1831-4 ,Ripon 1857-60
John came from a well-established Somerset family who had become prosperous through trade. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He entered Parliament as the Tory Lord Mount Edgcumbe's placeman at Lostwithiel but soon gravitated towards the Whigs and switched to Weymouth in 1818 where he was unsuccessful. He contested Taunton as an independent championing civil and religious liberty, retrenchment and parliamentary reform. After spending heavily he came in second. His outspoken support for Catholic relief made his position in Taunton difficult and he stood down in 1826 rather than spend a fortune there. He stood for Hastings in 1830 at the behest of the Reform Association. He was defeated but came in unopposed a year later. John retired in 1834 but then stood again unsuccessfully in 1847 and 1852.
John won the previously Conservative seat of Ripon in 1857 and held it until his death.
He died in 1860 aged 73.
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