512 John Rebow

Constituency : Colchester  1857-9,  1865-70

John  re-took  his  old  seat  from  the  Tories  after  losing  it  in  1859.

John  was  a  Norfolk  landowner. He  was  educated  at  Eton. He  first  stood  for  North  Essex  in  1847.

Soon  after  his  election  John  was  involved  in  counter-espionage  work  against  the  Fenians  in   Canada, assisting  in  the  recruitment  of  a  double  agent  for  the  British  government.

He  died  in  1870 aged  71.