Sunday, 17 November 2013
321 John St Aubyn
Constituency : West Cornwall 1858-85, St Ives 1885-7 ( from 1886 a Liberal Unionist )
John was a baronet's son and heir and the latest in a long line of family parliamentarians. He was also the ground landlord for most of Devonport. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He was first elected at a by-election in 1858 and never subsequently opposed at West Cornwall.
John's first election address promised his support for abolition of church rates, educational expansion, economy, Jewish emancipation, manhood suffrage and the ballot ( qualified ).
In 1885 John switched to St Ives which he won after a severe battle. He voted against Home Rule and thus became a Liberal Unionist in 1886.
John resigned his seat in 1887 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron St Levan in Victoria's Jubilee Honours list. Salisbury wrote of this to Hartington "the fact that some (honours) have been made because they are Liberal Unionists should not be hidden under a bushel : and the mention of your name as Sir John St Aubyn's proposer will in his case sufficiently indicate that fact".
He died in 1908 aged 78.
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