Henry William Tancred
QC (1781 – 20 August 1860) was an English
Whig and
Liberal politician who sat in the
House of Commons from 1832 to 1858.
Tancred was the second son of
Sir Thomas Tancred, 5th Baronet and his wife Penelope Smith, daughter of
Thomas Assheton Smith of
Bowdon, Cheshire
Bowdon is a suburb and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
History
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. He was educated at
Eton College and admitted to
Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1799 and also at
Lincoln's Inn
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on 4 May 1799. He migrated to
Jesus College, Cambridge) on 15 October 1800. He was a scholar in 1802 and was awarded B.A. in 1804. He was also called to the Bar on 11 May 1804. He was awarded M.A. in 1807 and became a Fellow of Jesus College in 1808.
Tancred was elected as a
Member of Parliament for
Banbury in the
1832 general election and resigned on 4 November 1858 by appointment as
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
Appointment to the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds is a procedural device to allow Members of Parliament to resignation from the British House of Commons, resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. S ...
.
Tancred was a Bencher from 1832 to 1860. He became Q.C. in 1840 and Treasurer from 1845 to 1846. He was one of the founders of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. His publications included ''Review of the Policy of the British Government in the Treatment of its Catholic Subjects''.
[ He also published ''Plato's Republic and the Greek Enlightenment''
Tancred died at Margate aged 78.][
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1781 births
1860 deaths
Members of Lincoln's Inn
UK MPs 1832–1835
UK MPs 1835–1837
UK MPs 1837–1841
UK MPs 1841–1847
UK MPs 1847–1852
UK MPs 1852–1857
UK MPs 1857–1859
Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge