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Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family. He sat in the House of Commons for 63 years, from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP). He also holds the distinction of the oldest candidate to win a parliamentary ...
A biography of Charles Pelham Villiers, a British statesman and politician who served as member of parliament for Wolverhampton from 1835 to 1898. Learn about his early life, education, career, and views on free trade, legal reform, and Ireland.
16 de mar. de 2017 · Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical. This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career...
Learn about the longest-ever serving member of parliament, who represented Wolverhampton for over sixty years. Find out his achievements, such as free trade, poor law reform and his statue in West Park.
Learn about Charles Pelham Villiers, a Whig MP who fought for free trade and women's suffrage in Britain. He also wrote a character reference for James Cooper, who sought work in Esquimalt in 1858.
Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family. He sat in the House of Commons for 63 years, from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP).
Charles Pelham Villiers, 1802-1898, was educated at Haileybury and St. Johns College, Cambridge, becoming a barrister at Lincolns Inn in 1827. He held Benthamite political views, and enjoyed a long career in public service and Parliament. In 1832, he was a Poor Law Commissioner, and from 1833 to 1852, an official of the court of Chancery.
