An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Richard Dyott (1808 – 13 February 1891) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1880. Dyott was the son of General of Freeford Hall, Staffordshire and his wife Eleanor Thompson daughter of Samuel Thompson of Greenmount, co. Antrim. He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the army as Ensign in the 53rd Foot in October 1827, became lieutenant in June 1831, and captain in August 1838. Dyott married Ellen Catherine Foster, daughter of Charles Smith Foster of Lysway's Hall, Lichfield in 1849.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Richard Dyott (1808 – 13 February 1891) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1880. Dyott was the son of General of Freeford Hall, Staffordshire and his wife Eleanor Thompson daughter of Samuel Thompson of Greenmount, co. Antrim. He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the army as Ensign in the 53rd Foot in October 1827, became lieutenant in June 1831, and captain in August 1838. Dyott stood unsuccessfully for parliament at South Staffordshire in August 1837, and at Lichfield in July 1841. In 1842 he retired from the army on half-pay. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Staffordshire and was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1856. He was Lieutenant-colonel of the Staffordshire Militia. At the 1865 general election Dyott was elected Member of Parliament for Lichfield. He retained the seat after representation was reduced to one member in 1868 and held it until 1880. He was elected at the 1880 general election but his election was declared void on 5 July. Dyott died at Freeford at the age of 82 and was buried at night in the family vault under St Mary's Church, Lichfield according to a family tradition since the Commonwealth. Dyott married Ellen Catherine Foster, daughter of Charles Smith Foster of Lysway's Hall, Lichfield in 1849. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 29233544 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3205 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1089388273 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:before
dbp:title
  • Member of Parliament for Lichfield (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:with
  • Augustus Anson to 1868 (en)
dbp:years
  • 1865 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Richard Dyott (1808 – 13 February 1891) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1880. Dyott was the son of General of Freeford Hall, Staffordshire and his wife Eleanor Thompson daughter of Samuel Thompson of Greenmount, co. Antrim. He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the army as Ensign in the 53rd Foot in October 1827, became lieutenant in June 1831, and captain in August 1838. Dyott married Ellen Catherine Foster, daughter of Charles Smith Foster of Lysway's Hall, Lichfield in 1849. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Richard Dyott (died 1891) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:successor of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:after of
is dbp:candidate of
is dbp:successor of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License