Sir Robert John Harvey Harvey, 1st Baronet (16 April 1817 – 19 July 1870)
was a British
Conservative Party
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politician. He sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1865 to 1868.
Harvey was the eldest son of General
Sir Robert John Harvey of Mousehold House in
Norwich
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. He was elected at the
1865 general election as a
member of parliament
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(MP) for the
borough of Thetford in
Norfolk
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,
having unsuccessfully contested the seat at a by-election in April 1863.
The borough was disenfranchised at the
1868 general election, and Harvey did not stand for Parliament again.
The latter year he was created a Baronet, of Crown Point in the parish of
Trowse
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in the
County of Norfolk
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.
Harvey married Lady Henrietta Augusta Lambart, daughter of George Frederick Augustus Lambart,
Viscount Kilcoursie, in 1845. He shot himself in July 1870, aged 53, after the collapse of the Crown Bank, and is buried in a large mausoleum in the graveyard at Kirby Bedon, Norfolk. He was succeeded in the title by his son
Charles
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. His grandson
Oliver Harvey became
British Ambassador to France
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Traditionally, the ...
and was created
Baron Harvey of Tasburgh
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in 1954. Lady Harvey died in 1874.
References
Sources
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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1817 births
1870 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1865–1868
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom