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Sir William Richard Powlett Geary, 3rd Baronet (13 November 1810 – 19 December 1877) was an English
Sir William Richard Powlett Geary, 3rd Baronet (13 November 1810 – 19 December 1877) was an English Conservative Party
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politician. He sat in the House of Commons
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from 1835 to 1838.
He was the eldest son of Sir William Geary, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Geary, 2nd Baronet (23 September 1756 – 6 August 1825) was an English Tory politician from West Peckham in Kent. He sat in the House of Commons from 1796 to 1806 and from 1812 to 1818.
He was the eldest surviving son of Admiral Sir ...
, whom he succeeded in 1825.
Geary contested the 1832 general election in the newly created Western division of Kent, without success, but won the seat at the 1835 general election. He was re-elected in 1837
Events
January–March
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, and held the seat until his resignation
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in 1838 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds
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.
On his death he was buried in St Peter and St Paul Church, Tonbridge. He had married Louisa Charlotte Bruce. The baronetcy passed to his brother Francis.
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* 1810 births 1877 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1810s-stub