Wednesday, 18 December 2013
355 Anthony Henley aka Lord Henley
Constituency : Northampton 1859-74
Anthony replaced Robert Vernon Smith at Northampton after his elevation to the Lords.
Like Palmerston himself Anthony was an Irish peer, the third Baron Henley.
In the latter part of his parliamentary career Anthony came under pressure from his electors who wanted the Radical Charles Bradlaugh to represent them rather than an old-style Whig. Bradlaugh first contested the seat in 1868. In 1874 his intervention meant the loss of one of the seats to the Conservatives with Anthony the defeated MP.
Anthony was created Baron Northington in 1885.
He died in 1898 aged 73.
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