Montague Joseph Feilden

Montague Joseph Feilden
Member of Parliament
for Blackburn
In office
24 March 1853 – 27 March 1857
Serving with James Pilkington
Preceded byJames Pilkington
William Eccles
Succeeded byJames Pilkington
William Henry Hornby
Personal details
Born8 May 1816
Feniscowles, Lancashire
Died17 October 1898(1898-10-17) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Other political
affiliations		Whig
Spouse(s)
Alice Thoume
​
(m. 1865)​

Mary Anne Valentine
​
​
(m. 1846; died 1859)​
Children1
Parents
Residence(s)The Chain, Preston, Lancashire

Montague Joseph Feilden (8 May 1816 – 17 October 1898)[1] was a British Liberal and Whig politician.[2]

Born in Feniscowles, Lancashire, Feilden was the son of William and Mary Haughton (née Jackson) Feilden. He married firstly to Mary Anne Valentine, daughter of William Valentine, in 1846. After her death in 1859, he remarried to Alice Thoume, daughter of James Thoume, in 1865 and they had at least one child, Montague Leyland Feilden (1867–1900).[2]

Feilden was elected Whig MP for Blackburn at a by-election in 1853—caused by the election of William Eccles being declared void on petition, due to bribery[3]—and held the seat until 1857 when he did not seek re-election. He later attempted to regain the seat as a Liberal in 1868, but was unsuccessful.[4][5][2]

Feilden was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3rd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, and a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire.[2]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)
  2. ^ a b c d "Montague Joseph Feilden". The Peerage. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Blackburn Election". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 26 March 1853. p. 5. Retrieved 14 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  5. ^ Pink, William Dumcombe; Beavan, Alfred B. (1889). The Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire (County and Borough) 1258-1885 with Biographical and Genealogical Notices of the Members. London: Henry Gray. p. 317. Retrieved 14 April 2018.