Spencer Horsey de Horsey

Spencer Horsey de Horsey (1790 – 20 May 1860), known until 1832 as Spencer Horsey Kilderbee, was a British Tory politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1829 and 1841.

Family

He was the son of the Rev. Samuel Kilderbee, DD, rector of Campsey Ash, and his wife Caroline, the only daughter (and heir) of Samuel Horsey from Bury St Edmunds.[1] In 1824, at Wangford, he was married to Lady Louisa Rous, youngest daughter of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke, by whom he was the father of Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey (born 1827), William Henry Beaumont de Horsey (born 1826) and Adeline Louisa Maria de Horsey (born 1824). He died at his house in Cowes, but also lived at 8, Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair (from 1830 to 1858) and at Great Glemham in Suffolk.

Career

He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldeburgh in Suffolk at a by-election in May 1829,[2] and held the seat until the 1830 general election,[3][4] when he was returned for Orford,[5] also in Suffolk. He was re-elected in 1831,[6] and held the seat until the 1832 general election,[7] when the borough was disenfranchised under the Reform Act.[8]

In April 1832 he changed his name by Royal Licence to Spencer Horsey de Horsey, after his mother's maiden name.[1]

He returned to Parliament after a five-year absence when he was elected at the 1837 general election as MP for the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme[9] in Staffordshire. He held the seat until the 1841 general election,[10] when he did not stand again.[11]

References
  1. "No. 18930". The London Gazette. 24 April 1832. p. 916.
  2. "No. 18580". The London Gazette. 29 May 1829. p. 981.
  3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 1)
  4. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 540. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  5. "No. 18719". The London Gazette. 20 August 1830. p. 1782.
  6. "No. 18804". The London Gazette. 17 May 1831. p. 948.
  7. Stooks Smith, page 544
  8. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"
  9. "No. 19531". The London Gazette. 11 August 1837. p. 2107.
  10. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
  11. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 217. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

Sources
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Joshua Walker
Marquess of Douro		 Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh
1829–1830
With: Marquess of Douro		 Succeeded by
Marquess of Douro
John Wilson Croker
Preceded by
Sir Henry Frederick Cooke
Quintin Dick		 Member of Parliament for Orford
1830–1832
With: Sir Henry Frederick Cooke		 Constituency abolished
Preceded by
William Henry Miller
Edmund Peel		 Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
1837–1841
With: William Henry Miller		 Succeeded by
Edmund Buckley
John Quincey Harris


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