Michael Thomas Sadler | |
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![]() Portrait by William Robinson, c. 1830 | |
Member of Parliament for Newark | |
In office 1829–1831 | |
Member of Parliament for Aldborough | |
In office 1831–1832 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 3 January 1780 Snelston, Derbyshire, Great Britain |
Died | 29 July 1835 (aged 55) Belfast, Ireland, UK |
Resting place | Ballylesson |
Political party | Tory/Ultra-Tory |
Michael Thomas Sadler (3 January 1780 – 29 July 1835) was a British Tory Member of Parliament (MP) whose Evangelical Anglicanism and prior experience as a Poor Law administrator in Leeds led him to oppose Malthusian theories of population and their use to decry state provision for the poor.