Saturday, 22 February 2014
429 Sir Hedworth Williamson
Constituency : North Durham 1864-74
Sir Hedworth surprisingly claimed the seat of North Durham unopposed in June 1864 after the death of the sitting Tory.
Hedworth was the son and heir of a baronet. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became a diplomat and served at St Petersburg and Paris. In 1861 he inherited the baronetcy.
In 1864 Sir Hedworth's parliamentary question about "false lights" off the coast near Whitburn prompted the building of an additional lighthouse.
Sir Hedworth stepped down at the 1874 election.
Sir Hedworth donated the land for Roker Park , Sunderland in 1880.
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