Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon
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Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon (5 January 1818 – 23 March 1883),[1] known as Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet from 1860 to 1880, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Biography
[edit]Born in London, he was the son of Sir Lawrence Palk, 3rd Baronet and his first wife Anna Eleanora Wrey, daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Baronet.[2] Palk was educated at Eton College in Berkshire.[3] In 1860, he succeeded his father as baronet. Palk entered the British House of Commons for South Devon in 1854 and sat for the constituency until 1868.[4] Subsequently, he represented East Devon to 1880.[4] After his retirement from politics, he was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Haldon, of Haldon, in the County of Devon on 29 May 1880.[5]
Having served for a while as an officer in 1st The Royal Dragoons, Palk became Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 1st Administrative Brigade, Devonshire Artillery Volunteers on 2 September 1863, and Honorary Colonel in 1868, when his son Lawrence (formerly an officer in the Scots Fusilier Guards) became a Major in the unit.[6]
On 15 May 1845, he married Maria Harriett Hesketh, daughter of Sir Thomas Hesketh, 4th Baronet in Rufford, Lancashire.[3] They had six children, four sons and two daughters.[3]
From 1878 to 1882, he was master of the South Devon Hunt.[7]
His oldest son Lawrence succeeded to the titles.[1] In 1938, the barony reverted to the youngest son Edward, after whose death one year later it became extinct.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Leigh Rayment – Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 775.
- ^ a b c "ThePeerage – Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon". Retrieved 25 March 2007.
- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Devonshire South & Devonshire East". Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "No. 24838". The London Gazette. 27 April 1880. p. 2725.
- ^ Army Lists
- ^ Tozer, Edward JF (1916). The South Devon Hunt.
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