Acton Smee Ayrton
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Rt. Hon. Acton Smee Ayrton (5 August 1816 – 30 November 1886) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Ayrton practised as a solicitor in Bombay and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1853. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tower Hamlets from 1857-74, and held office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1868-9, First Commissioner of Works from 1869-73 and Judge Advocate General from 1873-4. He was appointed a privy counsellor in 1869.
Ayrton is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[1]
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- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir William Clay and Charles Salisbury Butler |
Member of Parliament for Tower Hamlets with Charles Salisbury Butler 1857–1874 |
Succeeded by Charles Ritchie and Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda |
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| Preceded by Austen Henry Layard |
First Commissioner of Works 1869–1873 |
Succeeded by William Patrick Adam |
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