Henry Cartwright

{{Short description|British politician}}

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|honorific-prefix =

|name = Henry Cartwright

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|office = Member of Parliament
for South Northamptonshire

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|term_start = 20 February 1858

|term_end = 15 November 1868

|alongside = Rainald Knightley

|predecessor = John Spencer
Rainald Knightley

|successor = Rainald Knightley
Fairfax Cartwright

|birth_date = 1 September 1814

|birth_place = Aynhoe Park, Aynho, Northamptonshire

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1890|07|26|1814|09|01}}

|death_place = Eydon Hall, Eydon, Northamptonshire

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|alma_mater = Eton College

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|nationality = British

|party = Conservative

|parents = William Ralph Cartwright
Julia Frances Aubrey

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|spouse = {{marriage|Jane Holbech|15 December 1853}}

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Henry Cartwright (1 September 1814 – 26 July 1890){{Rayment-hc|n|3|date=March 2018}}{{cite web|last1=Clark|first1=Rupert|title=A Military History of Aynho: 600 BC to 2012|url=http://www.aynho.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/A_Military_History_of_Aynho.pdf|website=Aynho|publisher=Aynho Parish Council|access-date=11 March 2018|page=33|date=2014}} was a British Conservative Party politician.

Cartwright was the second of five children of former Northamptonshire and South Northamptonshire Tory and Conservative MP William Ralph Cartwright and Julia Frances Aubrey, daughter of Richard Aubrey.{{cite book|author1=Burke, John|author2=Burke, Bernard|authorlink1=John Burke (author)|authorlink2=Bernard Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 1|date=1847|publisher=Henry Colburn|page=193|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8fTAAAAMAAJ&q=henry+cartwright+1814+1890+northamptonshire&pg=PA193|access-date=11 March 2018}} He married Jane Holbech, daughter of former Banbury MP William Holbech, in 1853 at Farnborough in Warwickshire.{{cite news|title=Bulletins|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/24th-december-1853/18/bulteu3|access-date=11 March 2018|work=The Spectator|date=4 December 1853|page=18}}

After education at Eton College, Cartwright first joined the army as an ensign in the Grenadier Guards in 1832, rising to captain in 1846, and colonel in 1854. He sold out in 1857.{{cite web|last1=Frecker|first1=Paul|title=Colonel Cartwright MP|url=http://www.paulfrecker.com/pictureDetails.cfm?pagetype=library&typeID=21&ID=3185|website=19th Century Photography|access-date=11 March 2018}}

Cartwright followed his father into politics when he was elected MP for South Northamptonshire at a by-election in 1858. He held the seat until he stood down in 1868.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}{{cite news|title=Southern Division|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22262/page/1939/data.pdf|access-date=11 March 2018|work=The London Gazette|issue=22262|date=May 13, 1859|page=1939}}{{cite news|title=Southern Division|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22994/page/3675/data.pdf|access-date=11 March 2018|work=The London Gazette|issue=22994|date=July 25, 1865|page=3675}}