Saturday, 4 January 2014
376 George Moffat
Constituency : Dartmouth 1845-52, Ashburton 1852-9, Honiton 1860-5, Southampton 1865-8
George came in at Honiton in October 1860 to replace the deceased Joseph Locke.
George had voted against Palmerston over the Conspiracy to Murder Bill
George was an associate of Cobden and Bright who urged the former to join the Cabinet in 1859. He was lukewarm about parliamentary reform opposing any bill "that shall make franchise of no avail by bringing it down to manhood suffrage or ... shall cut the country... into parallelograms and squares ... This country has maintained its character of representation ... by the varied elements sent to Parliament."
He died in 1878.
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