John Ffolliott (28 December 1798 – 11 February 1868) was an

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landowner and Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was the eldest son of John Ffolliott of Hollybrook House,

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, by his wife Frances, sister of Sir William Jackson Homan, 1st Baronet. He was descended from a common ancestor with the Ffolliots of

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. In January 1814, while still a minor, he inherited the Worcestershire property of his great-uncle John (son of John Folliott), but he barred the entail in 1822 and sold the manors of Lickhill and Lower Mitton to Joseph Craven of Steeton. Ffolliott sat in Parliament for

from September 1841. He was a Conservative, and in 1846 he voted in favour of agricultural protection. He sat until shortly before 1 March 1850, when he accepted the

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.Michael Stenton, ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, volume I (1832–1885)''. Harvester Press, 1976, p. 138. On 17 December 1822 Ffolliott married Maria Lucy, daughter of Herbert Rawson Stepney of Durrow, King's County, by his wife Alicia Vincentia, daughter of Henry Peisley L'Estrange of Moystown, King's County. They had a son John, who succeeded to Hollybrook House, and a daughter Zaida Maria, who married on 15 June 1847 Sir Thomas Erskine, 2nd Baronet, of Cambo. Sir Bernard Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland'', volume I (1871
p. 450

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ffolliott, John 1798 births 1868 deaths Politicians from County Sligo UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 Irish Conservative Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Sligo constituencies (1801–1922)