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Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family. He sat in the House of Commons for 63 years, from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP). He also holds the distinction of the oldest candidate to win a parliamentary ...
The longest-ever serving member of parliament was from Wolverhampton: Charles Pelham Villiers represented the town for over sixty years. Member of the Whig Party. From 1835-1885, Charles Villiers was MP for the single constituency of Wolverhampton and then from 1885 until his death in 1898 as MP for Wolverhampton South (Bilston).
Charles Pelham Villiers, statesman, born on 3 January 1802 in Upper Grosvenor Street, London, was third son of George Villiers (1759-1827), by his wife, Theresa Parker (d. 1855), only daughter of John, first baron Boringdon. Thomas Villiers, first earl of Clarendon, was his grandfather. While Charles Pelham was still a youth, his parents took ...
Charles Pelham Villiers was the third son of George Villiers, fourth Earl of Clarendon. 1 Villiers attended Kensington School of Thomas Wright Hill and East India College as a young boy, and then studied law at St John's College at Cambridge in 1820. 2 He graduated with an MA in 1827, and was called to the bar the same year. 3 Throughout his career in law, Villiers primarily addressed issues ...
Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family. He sat in the House of Commons for 63 years, from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP). He also holds the distinction of the oldest candidate to win a parliamentary seat, at 93.
Description. This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served ...
16 mar 2017 · Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical. This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career...
