John Blakiston-Houston
Politician
1829 – 1920
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Who was John Blakiston-Houston?
John Blakiston-Houston DL JP was an Irish Member of parliament.
Blakiston-Houston was the son of Richard Bayly Blakiston-Houston, of Orangefield, Co. Down, and his wife Mary Isabella Houston. He was a grandson of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2nd Baronet. He married Marian Gertrude Streatfield, of Sussex and had twelve children.
John Blakiston-Houston was High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of County Down. He also held the office of Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of County Down. Between 1898 and 1900 he was the Irish Unionist Member of parliament for North Down at Westminster.
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