John Walbanke-Childers

John Walbanke-Childers (27 May 1798 – 8 February 1886)[1][2] was a British Whig politician.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

John Walbanke-Childers
Member of Parliament for Malton
In office 28 July 1847 – 8 July 1852 Serving with Evelyn Denison
Preceded by	Evelyn Denison William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
Succeeded by	Evelyn Denison Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam
In office 12 February 1836 – 15 April 1846 Serving with Evelyn Denison (1841–1846) William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1837–1841) John Charles Ramsden (1836–1837)
Preceded by	John Charles Ramsden Charles Pepys
Succeeded by	Evelyn Denison William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
In office 21 December 1832 – 19 January 1835 Serving with Charles Yorke
Preceded by	Henry John Adeane Richard Greaves Townley
Succeeded by	Richard Greaves Townley
Personal details
Born	27 May 1798
Died	8 February 1886 (aged 87)
Nationality	British
Political party	Whig
Spouse(s)	Selena Radford ​ (m. 1866)​ Anne Wood ​ ​ (m. 1824; died 1863)​
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford Eton College

Family and early life

Walkbanke-Childers was the son of Colonel John Walbanke-Childers (died 1812) and Selena née Gideon (born 1772). He was first educated at Eton College, and then graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1834 with a Master of Arts. In 1824, he married Anne Wood, daughter of Sir Francis Lindley Wood, 2nd Baronet and Anne née Buck, and they had at least five children:[9]

• Charlotte Anne Walbanke-Childers
• Leonard John Walbanke-Childers (1826–1837)
• Hugh Walbanke-Childers (1827–1828)
• Rowland Francis Walbanke-Childers (1830–1855)
• Lucy Walbanke-Childers (c. 1836–1870)

After Anne's death in 1863, he remarried in 1866 to his second cousin, Selena Radford, daughter of Edward Radford and Eliza Diana Walbanke-Childers.[9]

Member of Parliament

Walbanke-Childers was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire at the 1832 general election and held the seat until 1835, when he was defeated, ranking last out of four candidates in the poll.[7] He returned to Parliament for Malton at a by-election in 1836—caused by the appointment of Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham as Lord Chancellor, in the process being elevated to the peerage—and held the seat until 1846, when he resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[10] However, the next year, he returned to the same seat at the 1847 general election and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election.[4][5][6][9][11]

Other roles

Walbanke-Childers was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and West Riding of Yorkshire, and a Justice of the Peace for the latter county.[9]

References

1. Rayment, Leigh (22 November 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "M"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
2. Rayment, Leigh (8 August 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "C"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
3. "General Election, 1841". Morning Post. 29 June 1841. pp. 2–4. Retrieved 28 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 156–158. Retrieved 26 November 2018 – via Google Books.
5. Crosby's Political Record of Parliamentary Elections in Great Britain and Ireland with Select Biographical Notices and Speeches of Distinguished Statesmen. York: George Crosby. 1843. pp. 256–257. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
6. Ollivier, John (1842). "Alphabetical List of the House of Commons". Ollivier's parliamentary and political director. pp. 19, 20. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
7. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 24–25. ISBN 0-900178-13-2. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
8. "Public Dinner at the Red Lion to R. G. Townley, Esq. and J. W. Childers, Esq". Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette. 5 January 1833. p. 2. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
9. Lundy, Darryl (14 December 2009). "John Walbanke-Childers". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
10. House Of Commons, Great Britain. Parliament (1878). Parliamentary papers. Volume 62, Part 2.
11. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 204, 357. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr John Childers