Thomas Hussey DL, JP (1814–1894)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

Hussey was the eldest son of John Hussey.[2] He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1837.[3] In the same year he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn and in 1840 obtained his Master of Arts.[3]

When his predecessor William Pinney was unseated in 1842, Hussey entered the British House of Commons.[4] He was returned for Lyme Regis until 1847.[4]

Hussey served in the 1st Somerset Militia, being commissioned as a captain on 4 April 1846. The regiment was embodied for fulltime service from 2 May 1854 to 12 June 1856 during the Crimean War, carrying out home defence duties at Plymouth, Taunton and Aldershot. Hussey was promoted to major on 1 February 1862. He commanded the regiment as lieutenant-colonel from 11 November 1874 and received the honorary rank of colonel on 19 December 1874. He resigned on 25 January 1879.[1][5][6]

He was a deputy lieutenant for Dorsetshire and represented the county also as justice of the peace.[3]

In 1853, Hussey married Julia, daughter of John Hickson.[1] He died at Lympstone in 1894.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dodsley (1895), p. 155
  2. ↑ Dodd (1843), p. 169
  3. 1 2 3 Foster (1891), p. 720
  4. 1 2 Stenton and Lees (1976), p. 206
  5. ↑ Army List, various dates.
  6. ↑ Kerr, pp. 60–1, 78.

References

  • Dodd, Charles Roger (1843). The Parliamentary Companion 1843. London: Whitaker and Co.
  • Foster, John (1891). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co.
  • Dodsley, James (1895). Edmund Burke (ed.). The Annual Register and Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1894. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
  • W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930.
  • Michael Stenton; Stephen Lees, eds. (1976). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: 1832–1875. Brighton: Harvester Press. ISBN 0-85527-219-8.
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