George Thornhill MP (1783 - 1852)

Born 12 Jun 1783 in London, England

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Died 19 May 1852 at age 68 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

• Lawyer and politician: Wikidata: Item Q25893695, en:Wikipedia

George was born in 1783 in London, England. He was the son of George Thornhill and Mary Ann Hawkins.^[1] His family owned an estate at Diddington, Huntingdonshire which he inherited.

He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge. He studied law and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1805.

He married Charlotte Matilda Green, daughter of Charles in 1809 and they had 12 children together:

• Mary Ann Thornhill 1810–1899 • m. Edmund Packe
• George Thornhill 1811–1875 • m. Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson​​
• Rev. John Thornhill 1815–1875 • m. Catherine Wilkinson
• Frances Thornhill (f) 1816–1878 • m. Rev. John Pardoe
• Charlotte Matilda Thornhill 1819–1884 •
• Rev. William Thornhill 1822–1872 • m. Helen Jameson Woolsey
• Bryan Thornhill 1825–1911 • m. Sophia Bradford Tuke
• Georgina Thornhill 1827–1890 • m. Rev Plummer Pott Rooper​​
• Lydia Ann Thornhill 1828–1878 •
• Everilda Thornhill 1830–1913 • m. Alfred Herbert Jenner
• Henry Gordon Thornhill 1832–1890 • m. Elizabeth Julia Goldie
• Charles Thornhill 1839–1881 •

Three of his sons (George, John, Charles) were technically first class cricketers. George and Charles played a handful of matches for Cambridge University, and John a couple for the MCC.

He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1836

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire in 1837 until his death in 1852. He sat as a Conservative, but did not make any contributions or speeches.^[2]

He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.

Shortly before his death he was living at Diddington with his wife, four unmarried daughters and 28-year-old son William.^[3]

He passed away in 1852 in Marylebone, while still an MP.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQY7-G9R : 21 September 2020), George Thornhill, 1783.
2. ↑ https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-george-thornhill
3. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGR7-BYZ : 12 September 2019), George Thornhill, Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England; citing Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England, p. 21, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
4. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLSH-C2F7 : 19 April 2019), George Thornhill, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, 25 May 1852, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm.

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