Friday, 27 December 2013
366 John Dent
Constituency : Knaresborough 1852-7 , Scarborough 1857-9, 1860-74
John came back in at Scarborough to replace William Denison ( who had squeezed him out in 1859 ) on his elevation to the peerage.
John was a landowner educated at Eton and Cambridge. He had an interest in a savings bank. He also ran a private school and objected to government inspection. He was a Freemason.
John spoke mainly on financial and agricultural questions . He backed Gladstone's position during the Tea Room Mutiny.
After leaving Parliament in 1874 John was chairman of the North Eastern Railway from 1880 to his death.
He died in 1894 aged 68.
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