Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham

Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (9 August 1794 – 12 December 1870), was a British soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament.

Portrait of Beaumont Hotham

Biography

Hotham was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Beaumont Hotham of South Dalton, East Riding of Yorkshire and Philadelphia Dyke. His father died when he was five years old. He was educated at Westminster School.

He joined the army as an Ensign in the Coldstream Guards in 1810, and was promoted to captain in 1813, major in 1819, lieut.-colonel in 1825; colonel in 1838, major-general in 1851, lieut.-general in 1858 and full general in 1865. He fought in the Peninsular campaign of 1812–1814, including the Battle of Salamanca and the Battle of Vitoria and was at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

In 1814 he succeeded his grandfather as third Baron Hotham, but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was instead elected to the House of Commons for Leominster in 1820, a seat he held, with a brief exception for a few months in 1831, until 1841, and then represented the East Riding of Yorkshire between 1841 and 1868. By the time he retired from the House of Commons he was one of the longest-serving Members of Parliament.

In 1771 he rebuilt at his own expense the Parish Church of South Dalton near to the family seat of Dalton Hall.

Lord Hotham died in December 1870, aged 76, and was buried in his church at South Dalton. He never married and was succeeded in his titles and estates by his nephew Charles.

References

    • "HOTHAM, Beaumont, 3rd Bar. Hotham [I] (1794-1870), of South Dalton, Yorks. and 36 Davies Street, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
    • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Sir John Lubbock
    John Harcourt
    Member of Parliament for Leominster
    1820 – May 1831
    With: Sir William Cuninghame-Fairlie 1820–1826
    Thomas Bish 1826–1827
    Rowland Stephenson 1827–1830
    John Ward 1830
    William Marshall 1830–1831
    Succeeded by
    William Bertram Evans
    Thomas Brayen
    Preceded by
    William Bertram Evans
    Thomas Brayen
    Member of Parliament for Leominster
    December 1831 – 1841
    With: William Bertram Evans 1831–1832
    Thomas Bish 1832–1837
    Charles Greenaway 1837–1841
    Succeeded by
    Charles Greenaway
    James Wigram
    Preceded by
    Richard Bethell
    Henry Broadley
    Member of Parliament for the East Riding of Yorkshire
    1841–1868
    With: Henry Broadley 1841–1851
    Arthur Duncombe 1851–1868
    Succeeded by
    Christopher Sykes
    William Harrison-Broadley
    Peerage of Ireland
    Preceded by
    Beaumont Hotham
    Baron Hotham
    1814–1870
    Succeeded by
    Charles Hotham

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