{{Short description|British politician}} {{other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''George Fieschi Heneage''' (22 November 1800 – 11 May 1864<ref name="rayment-l3">{{Rayment-hc|l|3|date=March 2012}}</ref><ref name="rayment-g2">{{Rayment-hc|l|2|date=March 2012}}</ref>) was a British Whig<ref name="stooks-smith">{{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry. |editor=Craig, F. W. S. |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=The Parliaments of England |orig-date=1844–1850 |edition=2nd |year=1973 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-13-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/204 204] }}</ref> politician.
==Background== Heneage was the son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire, and Frances Anne Ainslie, daughter of Lieutenant-General George Ainslie. His middle name derived from his descent from Roboaldo Fieschi, Conte di Lavagna. He was educated at Eton College (1817) and Trinity College, Cambridge (1818), and succeeded his father to the Hainton estate in 1833.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/heneage-george-1800-1864|title=HENEAGE, George Fieschi (1800-1864), of Hainton Hall, nr. Louth, Lincs.|publisher=History of Parliament Online|access-date= 30 October 2016}}</ref>
==Political career== Heneage was elected at the 1826 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby,<ref name="rayment-g2" /><ref name="stooks-smith" /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 18261 |date=24 June 1826 |page=1551 }}</ref> but when he stood for re-election in 1830 he was defeated by the Tory candidate George Harris.<ref name="stooks-smith" />
At the 1831 general election Heneage was elected as a Member of Parliament for Lincoln.<ref name="rayment-l3" /><ref>Stooks Smith, p. 187.</ref> He was re-elected in 1832,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 19010 |date=4 January 1833 |page=27 }}</ref> but did not contest the seat at the 1835 general election.<ref name="craig1832-1885" />
He did not stand for Parliament again until the 1852 general election, when he was returned as an MP for Lincoln.<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-date=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |pages=201–2}}</ref> He was re-elected in 1857 and as a Liberal<ref name="craig1832-1885" /> in 1859, but resigned his seat in January 1862 (by taking the Chiltern Hundreds) in order to contest a by-election in Great Grimsby.<ref name="craig1832-1885" /> He was defeated in Grimsby by 446 votes to 458,<ref>Craig, p. 135.</ref> and lodged an election petition against the result. The petition was dismissed, and he did not stand again.
He also served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1839
==Family== Heneage married Frances Tasburgh, daughter of Michael Tasburgh, in 1833. Their son Edward was also a politician and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Heneage in 1896. Frances died in 1842. Heneage remained a widower until his death in May 1864, aged 63.
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