SLAVE ABOLITIONIST PARLIAMENT BENETT PYTHOUSE MP FREE FRANK COVER SIGNED 1828 VF

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HERE’S AN
1828
BRITISH MP FREE FRANK FRONT PANEL FROM LONDON, ENGLAND, SIGNED BY
JOHN BENETT
(1773 - 1852)
SLAVERY ABOLITIONIST MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS REPRESENTING WILTSHIRE 1819-1832, and SOUTH WILTSHIRE 1832-1852
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COMMISSIONED THE REBUILDING OF HISTORIC PYTHOUSE IN TISBURY, COMPLETED IN 1805.
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In 1833, the first meeting of the
House of Commons
met following the 1832
Great Reform Act
and the
subsequent general election
that produced a landslide majority for the ruling
Whig Government
. Also known as
The First Reformed Parliament
. Britain ultimately passed the Slavery Abolition Act on Aug. 1, 1834.
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BIOGRAPHY OF
John Benett
(1773–1852), of
Pythouse
, Wiltshire, was an English politician.
He was a
Member
(MP) of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
for
Wiltshire
1819 to 1832 and for
South Wiltshire
from 1832 to 1852.
Biography
Benett was born on 20 May 1773 in
Wiltshire
. He was the son of Thomas Benett (1729–1797) of Pythouse in
West Tisbury
, and his second wife Catherine Darell (d.1790), daughter of James Darell. His maternal grandfather was
William Wake
DD,
Archbishop of Canterbury
. His sister was the geologist
Etheldred Benett
.
He commissioned the rebuilding of Pythouse, completed in 1805.
He married in 1801 Lucy, daughter of Edmund Lambert of
Boyton Manor
, also in Wiltshire. They had two sons and five daughters, among them:
Etheldred, married in 1827
Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill
, second son of the
5th Duke of Marlborough
Lucy, married Rev. Arthur Fane, younger son of
General Sir Henry Fane
; Arthur was later vicar of
Warminster
.
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