George Repton

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George William John Repton (1818 – 30 August 1906){{Rayment-hc|w|1|date=March 2012}} was a British Conservative Party politician{{Cite book

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|first=Robert Henry

|title=Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881

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|year=1881

|publisher=Dean & Son

|location=London

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}} who held a seat in the House of Commons for most of the period from 1841 to 1885, first as a Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans{{Rayment-hc|s|1|date=March 2012}} and then for Warwick.

Family

Repton was the son of George Stanley Repton and his wife Lady Elizabeth, daughter of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon.

He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1838,{{alox2|title=Repton, George William John}} and on 5 September 1848 he married Lady Jane Seymour FitzGerald, the only daughter of the Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster, who died on 3 November 1898.

His address was listed in 1881 as Odell Castle, Bedford.

Career

Repton was elected at the 1841 general election as an MP for the borough of St Albans in Hertfordshire,{{London Gazette

|issue= 19999

|date= 16 July 1841

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|city=London

}}{{Cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= 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

|page=261

}} where he was re-elected in 1847.{{London Gazette

|issue= 20762

|date=6 August 1847

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}} However, a Royal Commission found evidence of extensive bribery in elections at the borough, which was disenfranchised in 1852.

He was returned at the 1852 general election as an MP for the borough of Warwick,{{London Gazette

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|date= 27 July 1852

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}}Craig, pp. 320–321 where he was re-elected in 1857, 1859, and 1865, but did not stand in 1868. He was again returned to the Commons from Warwick at the 1874 general election,{{London Gazette

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|date= 10 February 1874

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}} re-elected in 1880,{{London Gazette

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|date= 2 April 1880

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}} and retired from Parliament when the parliamentary borough of Warwick was abolished at the 1885 general election.