John James Knox (3 April 1790 – 9 July 1856) was an
Irish Tory politician from an aristocratic family based near
Dungannon in
County Tyrone
County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retai ...
. After a career as an officer in the British Army, he sat in the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 1830s as the
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...
(MP) for his family's
pocket borough of
Dungannon.
References
* https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/knox-hon-john-1790-1856
1790 births
1856 deaths
People from Dungannon
British Army officers
UK MPs 1830–1831
UK MPs 1831–1832
UK MPs 1832–1835
UK MPs 1835–1837
Irish Conservative Party MPs
Younger sons of earls
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tyrone constituencies (1801–1922)
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