Edward Thomas Foley

For other people named Edward Foley, see Edward Foley (disambiguation).

Edward Thomas Foley (21 December 1791 – 30 March 1846),[1] of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, was an English Tory (and later Conservative) politician.

Stoke Edith

He was the eldest son of Hon. Edward Foley and his wife Eliza Maria Foley Hodgetts and elder brother of John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley and inherited the Stoke Edith estate from his father in 1803.[2] He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (1809) and appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1815–16.[2]

Foley was one of the Members of Parliament (MP) for Ludgershall from 1826 to 1832[3] and for Herefordshire from 1832 to 1841.[4]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
  2. ^ a b "FOLEY, Edward Thomas (1791-1846), of Stoke Edith, Herefs. and 41 Curzon Street, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 396. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.