Sir Frederick Johnstone, 7th Baronet (1810–1841) was a
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
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1832 to 1835. He was part of the
Johnstone baronets family.
Life
The only son of
Sir John Johnstone, 6th Baronet
Sir John Lowther Johnstone, 6th Baronet (1783–1811) was a British army officer and politician.
Life
He was the son of George Johnstone, who died in 1787, and his wife Charlotte Dee. His mother married again, in 1790, to Charles Edmund Nugent.
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, he married in 1840 Lady Louisa Elizabeth Frederica Craven, only daughter of
William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven. He died, after a fall from his horse, on 7 May 1841.
Johnstone inherited from his father the Westerhall estate on
Grenada, and was paid compensation for it under the
Slave Compensation Act 1837
The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837. It authorised the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the Brit ...
.
References
1810 births
1841 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1832–1835
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