Henry Wardle (1832 – 16 February 1892) was a British

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and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1892. Wardle was born at Twyford, Berkshire, the son of Francis Wardle and his wife Elizabeth Billinge. In 1853 at the age of 21 he went into partnership with Thomas Fosbrooke Salt in the

Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...

brewery Thomas Salt and Co. He was for many years active in the town's civic affairs as a Town Commissioner and then an

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after Burton became a

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in 1878. He was a J. P. for Derbyshire and Staffordshire.Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
/ref> Wardle was elected as the

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(MP) for South Derbyshire constituency at the 1885 general election. He held the seat until his death in Burton upon Trent in 1892 aged 60. Wardle married Thomas Fosbrooke Salt's daughter Mary Ellen Salt in 1864. They lived at

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. Son Thomas Erskine Wardle became a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

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* 1832 births 1892 deaths People from Twyford, Berkshire People from Burton upon Trent Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 English brewers Councillors in Staffordshire Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub