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The longest-ever serving member of parliament was from Wolverhampton: Charles Pelham Villiers represented the town for over sixty years. Member of the Whig Party From 1835-1885, Charles Villiers was MP for the single constituency of Wolverhampton and then from 1885 until his death in 1898 as MP for Wolverhampton South (Bilston).
posterity, the figure of Charles Pelham Villiers will stand out from among his contemporaries with a clearness greater even than it does now as that of the far-seeing statesman who, with rare singleness of purpose, forgot himself in his zeal for the welfare of the people.' Today, fifty years after Villiers's death, his achievements have
This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. <br /><br />An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as…
Charles Pelham Villiers. by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, printed by Brooker & Harrison, published by Thomas Agnew, published by John Gadsby, published by Ackermann & Co, after Charles Allen Duval mezzotint, published 28 February 1844 NPG D39241
VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802–1898), statesman, born on 3 Jan. 1802 in Upper Grosvenor Street, London, was third son of George Villiers (1759-1827), by his wife, Theresa Parker (d. 1855), only daughter of John, first baron Boringdon [see under Parker, John, second Baron Boringdon and first Earl Morley].
8 de abr. de 2017 · * Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical, is published by Routledge. Similar stories 'I've had a good run': Veteran Labour MP John Spellar to stand down this summer after 32 years.
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 seat, at 93.
