James Langston

{{Short description|British landowner and politician (1796–1863)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = James Haughton Langston | honorific_suffix = M.P. | image = File:James Haughton Langston Lawrence.jpg | alt = Standing three-quarter length painted portrait of James Haughton Langston, formally dressed in black, holding papers in his right hand and resting his left hand | caption = Portrait of James Haughton Langston by Thomas Lawrence, c.1810 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1796 | birth_place = | death_date = 1863 | known_for = | education = | occupation = politician | title = | children = | father = | mother = }}

'''James Haughton Langston''' (25 May 1796<ref>''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975''</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Peters |first1=Christine |title=The Lord Lieutenants and High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire |date=1995 |publisher=Perpetua Press |page=7 |isbn=9781870882125 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7oqAQAAMAAJ&q=James+Haughton+Langston+(May+1796 |accessdate=27 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> – 19 October 1863) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament.

==Life== He was the son of John Langston of Sarsden House, Oxfordshire, and his wife, Sarah. He was educated at Eton College (1811). He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1814, graduating DCL in 1819.<ref>{{alox2|title=Langston, James Haughton}}</ref>

In 1812 Langston succeeded his father, inheriting the Sarsden estate. He was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1819–20 and verderer of Wychwood Forest.

Langston served as MP for New Woodstock from 1820 to 1826 and Oxford from 1826 to 1834 and from 1841 to 1863. He died in 1863. He had married the Hon. Julia Moreton, the daughter of Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 4th Baron Ducie. They had one daughter who survived into adulthood, Julia, to whom he bequeathed his Oxfordshire estate. In 1849 she married her cousin Lord Moreton, later 3rd Earl of Ducie.

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite web | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/langston-james-1797-1863|title = LANGSTON, James Haughton (?1797-1863), of Sarsden House, Chipping Norton, Oxon. and 143 Piccadilly, Mdx.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 2013-03-03}}

== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-james-langston | James Langston }}

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{{s-bef | before = Charles Wetherell | before2 = John Ingram Lockhart }} {{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Oxford | years = 1826–1836 | with = John Ingram Lockhart to 1830 | with2 = William Hughes Hughes 1830–32 | with3 = Thomas Stonor 1832–33 | with4 = William Hughes Hughes from 1833 }} {{s-aft | after = William Hughes Hughes | after2 = Donald Maclean }}

{{s-bef | before = William Erle | before2 = Donald Maclean }} {{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Oxford | years = 1841–1863 | with = Donald Maclean to 1847 | with2 = Sir William Wood 1847–53 | with3 = Edward Cardwell 1853 – March 1857 | with4 = Charles Neate March – July 1857 | with5 = Edward Cardwell from July 1857 }} {{s-aft | after = Charles Neate | after2 = Edward Cardwell }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

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