George Darby (MP for East Sussex)

{{Short description|British Conservative politician}} {{For|the MP for Plymouth|George Darby}} {{use British English|date=May 2019}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = George Darby | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Member of Parliament for East Sussex | term_start = 1 August 1837 | term_end = 3 February 1846 | predecessor = Charles Cavendish Herbert Barrett Curteis | successor = Augustus Fuller Charles Frewen | alongside = Augustus Fuller (1841–1846) Charles Cavendish (1837–1841) | birth_date = 1798 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1872|11|16|1798}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | alma_mater = | birth_name = | party = Conservative | other_party = | parents = | spouse = | children = }} '''George Darby''' (1798 – 16 November 1877)<ref name="leighrayment">{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "S" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons6.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |access-date=3 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629155735/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons6.htm|archive-date=29 June 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=13 June 2017 }}</ref> was a British Conservative politician.<ref name="stookssmith">{{cite book |last1=Stooks Smith |first1=Henry |title=The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive |date=1845 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. |location=London |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HacQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75 |via=Google Books |access-date=3 June 2019}}</ref>

He was educated at Westminster School and Catharine Hall, Cambridge.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/18771124/098/0023|title=Mr. George Darby|date=24 November 1877|work=Illustrated London News|access-date=1 August 2019|issue=2002|page=23|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He was elected Conservative MP for East Sussex at the 1837 general election and held the seat until 1846 when he had to step down after being appointed a Commissioner of Inclosures<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|page=470}}</ref><ref name="stookssmith"/>

He died 16 November 1877 in Piccadilly, London.<ref name=":0" />

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef| before = Charles Cavendish |before2= Herbert Barrett Curteis }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for East Sussex | years = 1837–1846 | with = Augustus Fuller (1841–1846) | with2 = Charles Cavendish (1837–1841) }} {{s-aft| after= Augustus Fuller |after2= Charles Frewen }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darby, George}} Category:UK MPs 1837–1841 Category:UK MPs 1841–1847 Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:1798 births Category:1877 deaths Category:People educated at Westminster School, London Category:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge