Wednesday, 25 September 2013
272 William MacKinnon
Constituency : Rye 1852-3, Lymington 1857-68
William was the son of a Scottish chief, railway director and MP. He was elected for Rye in 1852 but his election was declared void and confusingly his father of the same name who had lost his seat at Lymington won the by-election. William then won back the Lymington seat in 1857.
William didn't speak in Parliament. He started voting with Disraeli because Palmerston and Russell declined to give his father a peerage.
He died in 1903 aged 90.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment