John Fenwick Burgoyne Blackett (1821 – 25 April 1856) was a British politician.
He was the oldest son of
Christopher Blackett
Christopher Blackett (1751 – 25 January 1829) owned the Northumberland colliery at Wylam that built ''Puffing Billy'', the first commercial adhesion steam locomotive. He was also the founding owner of ''The Globe'' newspaper in 1803.
Lif ...
, a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Northumberland South. John was educated at
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
, established = (Royal Charter)
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, type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school
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, and in 1841 was admitted to
Christ Church, Oxford
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(where he was
President of the Oxford Union
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), earning a second-class degree in Classics, and was elected to a fellowship at
Merton College, Oxford
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, in 1842. He shortly after came to
London
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, and studied for the bar, as well as contributing to the ''
Edinburgh Review
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''Edinburgh Review'', ...
''.
He was elected as a Member of Parliament for
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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at the
1852 general election. He was noted for his regular and punctual attendance to Parliament, but constant hard work wore him out and he retired in 1856,
resigning his seat by appointment as
Steward of the Manor of Northstead
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. He then moved to continental Europe to try to regain some energy, dying at
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France.
Hardwicke's Annual biography
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1821 births
1856 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Presidents of the Oxford Union
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1852–1857
People educated at Harrow School