John Jeffrey (1751 – 18 May 1822) was an English politician who was an MP for

Poole Poole () is a large coastal town and seaport in Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east. Since 1 April 2019, the local authority is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Counc ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

from 1796 to 1809.

Life

Jeffrey was

Mayor of Poole The following were mayors of Poole, Dorset, England: *1515–16, 1521–2, 1530–1, 1536–7, 1543–4: William Biddlecombe *1697–8, 1703–4, 1704–5: William Phippard *1798: John Jeffery *2015: Janet Walton *2018: Sean Gabriel *2019, 2020: ...

in 1798. He served in the last Parliament of Great Britain and the

First Parliament of the United Kingdom In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members ...

. He died in

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, in 1822 and was buried in the British Cemetery there.

References

1751 births 1822 deaths British MPs 1796–1800 UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1807–1812 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Dorset Mayors of Poole Burials at the British Cemetery, Lisbon {{UK-politician-stub