Francis John Savile Foljambe (9 April 1830 – 5 February 1917) was a British

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Early life

Foljambe was born at Osberton Hall, near

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on 9 April 1830. He was the eldest son and heir of George Savile Foljambe and Harriet Emily Mary Milner (a daughter of

Sir William Milner, 4th Baronet The Milner Baronetcy, of Nun Appleton Hall in the County of York. It is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 February 1717 for William Milner, later Member of Parliament for York and Grand Master of the Freemasons. He ...

). After his mother's death, his father remarried to Selina, Viscountess Milton, widow of William Charles FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton (son of the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam) and daughter of Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool. From this marriage, he had a younger half-brother, fellow Liberal politician

Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool Cecil George Savile Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool, (7 November 1846 – 23 March 1907), known as The Lord Hawkesbury between 1893 and 1905, was a British Liberal politician. A great-nephew of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liv ...

, and a step-sister, Hon. Mary Selina Charlotte Fitzwilliam, who later married

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. He was educated at

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and

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Career

Foljambe was elected as a

for

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in the 1857 general election. He was re-elected at every general election until the 1885 election, when the seat was abolished. He owned about of land and was a member of

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. He was appointed a member of the

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in 1895. In 1889, he succeeded Antony Gibbs as the

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and was, in turn, succeeded by Sir Charles Seely.

Personal life

On 20 February 1856, he married Lady Gertrude Emily Acheson, eldest daughter of

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and Lady Theodosia Brabazon (daughter of

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). Together, they had three sons, including: * George Savile Foljambe (1856–1920), a cricketer who married Dora Margaret Warre, a daughter of Dr.

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, Headmaster of Eton. * Godfrey Acheson Thornhagh Foljambe (1869–1942), also a cricketer who married Judith Frances Wright, the daughter of FitzHerbert Wright and sister of H. FitzHerbert Wright. * Hubert Francis Fitzwilliam Brabazon Foljambe (1872–1914), who married Gladys Bewicke-Copley, a daughter of Gen. Robert Calverley Alington Bewicke- Copley of Sprotborough Hall in 1909. He was killed in action during the

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at the

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. Foljambe died on 5 February 1917.Obituary: p. 158, ''The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917''. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918. His widow Lady Gertrude Foljambe died on 17 December 1927.

Descendants

Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of cricketer Edmond Walter Savile Foljambe (1890–1960), a soldier during World War I who married Judith Harriet Wright (daughter of the first-class cricketer H. FitzHerbert Wright, who was also the brother-in-law of his uncle Godfrey) in 1940.

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