Sir William Thackeray Marriott (1834 – 27 July 1903), was a British barrister and

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and later

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politician who sat in the

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from 1880 to 1893.

Life

Marriott was the third son of Christopher Marriott, of

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, and his wife Jane Dorothea, daughter of John Poole. He was educated at

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. He was ordained

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in 1858 and became

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of St George's,

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, where he was a supporter of the rights of the working classes. However, he declined to take priest's orders for conscientious reasons the following year. Marriott instead entered

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in 1861 and was

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in 1864. He established a successful legal practice and was appointed a

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in 1877 and elected a

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of Lincoln's Inn in 1879. In 1880 he entered Parliament for

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as a

. However, he soon became disillusioned with the Liberal leadership and his 1884 pamphlet "The Liberal Party and Mr Chamberlain" led to a bitter personal controversy with

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. He also attacked

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's policies in

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. In 1884 he resigned his seat in the

and offered himself for re-election as a

, and was re-elected in March 1884. When the Conservatives came to power in 1885 under

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, Marriott was sworn of the

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and appointed Judge Advocate General, a post he held until the government fell in 1886. He held the same office in Salisbury's 1886-1892 administration and was knighted in 1888. From 1887 to 1888 he was a counsel for

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, the deposed former

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of Egypt, in his lawsuit against the Egyptian government, and secured him a compensation of £1.2m. In 1892 he became Chancellor of the

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and was one of the main organiser behind a petition against the 1893 Irish Home Rule Bill brought forward by Gladstone. The latter year Marriott resigned his seat in Parliament in order to resume a legal career. He later emigrated to

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. Marriott married Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Captain Tennant, of Need wood House, Hampshire, in 1872. He died in July 1903.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marriott, William Thackeray 1834 births 1903 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892