George Chapple Norton (31 August 1800 – 24 February 1875) was a

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Member of Parliament for

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from 1826 to 1830. He was educated at

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. He died on 24 February 1875 at

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He was born in

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the son of

Fletcher Norton Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, PC (23 June 1716 – 1 January 1789) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantley. Life Norton was the eldest s ...

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(1744–1820) and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Balmain. His younger brother was

Charles Francis Norton Charles Francis Norton (1807 – 1835) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency), Guildford. Norton was also a Captain of 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot, 52nd Light Infantry. Through his wife Maria L ...

. He was the husband of the poet Caroline Norton (daughter of

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), who became a prominent liberal Feminist who passed reforms to help women in the marital domain, and with whom he reportedly had an unhappy marriage.Strauss, p. 141Caine, p. 67 His grandfather was

and his uncle was

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* Caine, Barbara. ''English Feminism, 1780–1980,'' Oxford University Press, 1997. * Strauss, Sylvia. ''Traitors to the Masculine Cause: The Men's Campaigns for Women's Rights''. Greenwood Press, 1982. 1800 births 1875 deaths UK MPs 1826–1830 People educated at Winchester College Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Politics of Guildford {{England-UK-MP-stub

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