Lord Henry Thynne
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Lord Henry Frederick Thynne PC, DL (2 August 1832 – 28 January 1904) was a British Conservative politician.
Thynne was the second son of Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath, and his wife the Hon. Harriet, daughter of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton. John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, was his elder brother. He entered the House of Commons in 1859 as Member of Parliament for South Wiltshire, a seat he held until 1885, and served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treasurer of the Household from 1875 to 1880. In 1876 Thynne was admitted to the Privy Council. Apart from his political career he was also a Major in the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry and a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire.
Thynne married Lady Ulrica Frederica Jane, a daughter of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, on 1 June 1858. They had four sons and two daughters. He died in January 1904, aged 71. Lady Ulrica survived him by twelve years and died in January 1916.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Hon. Sidney Herbert William Wyndham |
Member of Parliament for South Wiltshire with Hon. Sidney Herbert 1859–1861 Frederick Thomas Arthur Hervey-Bathurst 1861–1865 Thomas Grove 1865–1874 Viscount Folkestone 1874–1885 1859–1885 |
Succeeded by Constituency abolished |
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| Preceded by Earl Percy |
Treasurer of the Household 1875–1880 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Breadalbane |
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