William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton

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William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton (7 December 1800 – 1 June 1876), known as Sir William Jolliffe, 1st Baronet, between 1821 and 1866, was a British Conservative politician.

Jolliffe was the son of Reverend William John Jolliffe. His paternal grandparents were William Jolliffe and his wife Eleanor Hylton, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hylton, 5th Baronet (who had assumed the surname of Hylton in lieu of his patronymic Musgrave; see Musgrave Baronets) and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Hylton, 18th Baron Hylton. Jolliffe first served in the Army and achieved the rank of Captain in the 15th Dragoons. He notably took part in the events at St Peter's Field in Manchester in 1819 (the "Peterloo Massacre"). In 1821, at the age of twenty, Jolliffe was created a Baronet, of Merstham in the County of Surrey.

He later sat as a Member of Parliament for Petersfield from 1830 to 1832, 1833 to 1835, 1837 to 1838 and 1841 to 1866 and served under the Earl of Derby as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1852 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Government Whip) from 1858 to 1859. Jolliffe was admitted to the Privy Council in 1859 and in 1866 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hylton, of Hylton in the County Palatine of Durham and of Petersfield in the County of Southampton.

Lord Hylton married, firstly, Eleanor Paget, daughter of the Hon. Berkeley Thomas Paget, in 1825. Their eldest son Hylton Jolliffe was a Captain in the Coldstream Guards but died from cholera during the Crimean War. Hylton married, secondly, Sophia Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, 4th Baronet, in 1867. He died in June 1876, aged 75, and was succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving son from his first marriage, Hedworth.

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Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hylton Joliffe William Marshall	Member of Parliament for Petersfield with Gilbert East Joliffe 1830–1832	Succeeded by John Shaw-Lefevre
Preceded by John Shaw-Lefevre	Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1833–1835	Succeeded by Cornthwaite Hector
Preceded by Cornthwaite Hector	Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1837–1838	Succeeded by Cornthwaite Hector
Preceded by Cornthwaite Hector	Member for of Parliament Petersfield 1841–1866	Succeeded by William Nicholson
Political offices
Preceded by Edward Pleydell Bouverie	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1852	Succeeded by Henry Fitzroy
Preceded by William Goodenough Hayter	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1858–1859	Succeeded by Henry Brand
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Hylton 1866–1876	Succeeded by Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe