Daniel Gaskell

Daniel Gaskell (11 September 1782 – 20 December 1875)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician.

He was elected at the 1832–33 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the newly enfranchised borough of Wakefield[2] in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was re-elected in 1835,[3] at the same election that returned his nephew, James Milnes Gaskell as M.P. for Wenlock.

He held the seat until his defeat at the 1837 general election[1] by the Conservative Party candidate William Lascelles.[4]

Gaskell, whose home was at Lupsett Hall, Yorkshire,[5] died in 1875 aged ninety-three. There is a monument to him in the Unitarian Chapel on Westgate, in Wakefield.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
  2. ↑ "No. 19010". The London Gazette. 4 January 1833. p. 28.
  3. ↑ "No. 19234". The London Gazette. 30 January 1835. p. 170.
  4. ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 315. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937. Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 869.
  6. ↑ "Westgate Unitarian Chapel". Treasures Revealed in West Yorkshire. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Wakefield
1832–1837		 Succeeded by
William Lascelles


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