Thomas James Ireland

Thomas James Ireland
Member of Parliament
for Bewdley
In office
30 July 1847 – 20 March 1848
Preceded byThomas Winnington
Succeeded byWilliam Montagu
Personal details
Born10 January 1792
London, England
Died2 July 1863(1863-07-02) (aged 71)
London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Elizabeth Welby
​
(m. 1829)​
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge

Thomas James Ireland (10 January 1792 – 2 July 1863)[1] was a British Conservative politician.

Born in London, Ireland was the only son of Thomas Ireland. He was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in Michaelmas of 1810, became a scholar there in 1811, and then graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1814, and a Master of Arts in 1817. In 1832, he was admitted to Gray's Inn.[2]

Ireland married Elizbeth Welby, daughter of Sir William Earle Welby, 2nd Baronet and Wilhelmina née Spry in 1829,[2] and they had at least six children.

Ireland was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bewdley at the 1847 general election, but he was unseated in March the next year for "bribery and corrupt treating".[3][4]

He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Suffolk before his death in London in 1863.[2]

  1. ^ Rayment, Leigh (13 August 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "B"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c "Ireland, Thomas James". A Cambridge Alumni Database. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  4. ^ "Illustrated London News". 15 April 1848. p. 2. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.