{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Frederick Polhill | honorific_suffix = | image = Frederick Polhill.jpg | alt = | caption = Polhill in 1823 | office = Member of Parliament <br /> for Bedford | term_start = 8 January 1835 | term_end = 3 August 1847 | predecessor = William Henry Whitbread<br />Samuel Crawley | successor = Henry Stuart<br />Harry Verney | alongside = Henry Stuart <small>(1841–1847)</small><br />Samuel Crawley <small>(1838–1841)</small><br />Henry Stuart <small>(1837–1838)</small><br />Samuel Crawley <small>(1835–1837)</small> | term_start2 = 2 August 1830 | term_end2 = 13 December 1832 | predecessor2 = George Russell<br />William Henry Whitbread | successor2 = William Henry Whitbread<br />Samuel Crawley | alongside2 = William Henry Whitbread | birth_date = 2 July 1798 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1848|09|20|1798|07|02}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | alma_mater = | birth_name = | party = Conservative/Tory | other_party = | parents = | spouse = | children = }}
'''Frederick Polhill''' (2 July 1798 – 20 September 1848)<ref name="leighrayment">{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "B" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons2.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=27 October 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027093844/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons2.htm |archivedate=27 October 2018 |date=13 September 2018 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> was a British Conservative and Tory politician.<ref name="stooks-smith">{{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry. |editor=Craig, F. W. S. |title=The Parliaments of England |orig-date=1844-1850 |edition=2nd |year=1973 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-13-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/2 2–4, 20] |url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/2 }}</ref>
He was the third son of John Polhill and Mary Bennett (their second son Charles predeceased his father, and their first son Thomas died six weeks after his father). His grandfather was Nathaniel Polhill. Frederick was baptised on 30 July 1798 at St Mary, St Marylebone Road, London. He married Frances Margaretta Deakin, daughter of John Deakin and Anna Maria Beauvoir of Bagthorpe House, Basford, Nottinghamshire, on 6 January 1824 at Basford. Frances was baptised at Basford on 30 January 1803.
He served in the 1st. King's Dragoon Guards. After his father's death in October 1828, he assumed the management for the family seat, Howbury Hall in Renholm.<ref name="allsaintschurch">{{cite web |title=The Polhill Family History |url=http://www.all-saints-church-renhold.org/polhillfamilyhistory.html |website=All Saints' Church, Renhold|accessdate=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004614/https://www.all-saints-church-renhold.org/polhillfamilyhistory.html |archive-date=29 January 2018 }}</ref>
Polhill first became a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford at the 1830 general election, and held the seat until the 1832 general election when he was defeated. He returned to the seat at the 1835 general election as a Conservative and held it until 1847, when he was again defeated.<ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|pages=39–40}}</ref><ref name="stooks-smith"/>
He became involved in the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres, resulting in heavy financial losses.<ref name="HOP" >https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/polhill-frederick-1798-1848</ref>
He married Frances Margarette Deakin. Their son was Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner, who also became a Member of Parliament. Frederick senior formally separated from his wife in April 1836, who later remarried. He moved in with Mary Ann Jeans. They had three illegitimate children.<ref name="HOP" />
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef| before = George Russell |before2 = William Henry Whitbread }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Bedford | years = 1830–1832 |with = William Henry Whitbread }} {{s-aft| after= William Henry Whitbread |after2= Samuel Crawley }}
{{s-bef| before = William Henry Whitbread |before2= Samuel Crawley }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Bedford | years = 1835–1847 |with = Henry Stuart <small>(1841–1847)</small> |with2 = Samuel Crawley <small>(1838–1841)</small> |with3 = Henry Stuart <small>(1837–1838)</small> |with4 = Samuel Crawley <small>(1835–1837)</small> }} {{s-aft| after= Henry Stuart |after2= Harry Verney }}
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