William Philip Honywood
Member of Parliament
for Kent
Personal details
Born
William Philip Honywood

(1790-04-15)15 April 1790
Died22 April 1831(1831-04-22) (aged 41)
NationalityBritish
Political partyWhig
SpousePriscilla Hanbury
Parents
  • William Honywood (father)
  • Mary Brockman (mother)
Residence(s)Marks Hall, Essex
EducationRugby College (1800)
Jesus College, Cambridge (1808)

William Philip Honywood (15 April 1790 – 22 April 1831) was an English Whig[1] politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1830.

Early life and education

Honywood was the eldest son of William Honywood[2] and his wife Mary Brockman.[3] He graduated from Rugby in 1800 and Jesus College, Cambridge in 1808.[2]

Military career

He was a Captain in the Ashford regiment of the Kent militia in 1809.[2]

Politics

Honywood was a staunch Whig and was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent at the 1818 general election.[1] He held the seat until the 1830 general election[1][4] when he retired on the grounds of ill-health.[3]

Personal live and death

He married Priscilla Hanbury, the daughter of Charles Hanbury of Sloe Farm, Halstead on 11 September 1820.[2] They had three sons: William Philip, Robert, and Walter; and one daughter.[5] The Honywoods lived at Marks Hall, Essex. Honywood died aged 41 on 22 April 1831.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 157. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "HONYWOOD, William Philip (1790-1831), of Sibton, Kent and Marks Hall, Essex. | History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  3. 1 2 Essex Record Office - Monumental inscriptions at St Margaret, Marks Hall
  4. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
  5. ↑ "Court of Probate, Westminster | Honywood v. Honywood and others". The Essex Standard, and Eastern Counties Advertiser. 3 February 1860. p. 3. Retrieved 22 August 2022 – via Newspapers.com.


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