Thomas Gisborne (1789 – 20 July 1852) was an English Whig politician who sat in the

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variously between 1830 and 1852.

Life

Gisborne was the son of

Thomas Gisborne Thomas Gisborne (31 October 1758 – 24 March 1846) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was a member of the Clapham Sect, who fought for the Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, abolition of the slave trade in England. Life Gisborne wa ...

, Prebendary of Durham. He was educated at

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being awarded B.A. in 1810. At the 1830 UK general election Gisborne was elected

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for

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and held the seat until 1832. In the reformed parliament after the

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he was elected MP for

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and held the seat until 1837. On 27 Feb. 1839 he was elected MP for

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until 1841. He failed to win a seat in Ipswich in a by-election in 1842. He was elected MP for Nottingham in 1843 and held the seat until his defeat in 1847. Gisborne lived at Horwick House, Derbyshire and at Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire where he died at the age of 62. Gisborne married firstly Elizabeth Fysche Palmer, daughter of John Palmer, of Ickwell, Bedfordshire and secondly in 1826, Susan Astley, widow of Francis Duckenfield Astley. He was survived by his eldest son Thomas Guy Gisborne (1812–69). His second son

Henry Fyshe Gisborne Henry Fyshe Gisborne (1813–1841) was the first Commissioner for Crown Lands of the Port Phillip District, founder of Flemington Racecourse and petitioner for Victoria's separation from New South Wales. Early career Henry Fyshe Gisborne was t ...

(1813–41), a colonial commissioner, predeceased him.

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