John Hodgetts-Foley

Who was John Hodgetts-Foley?

John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley, born John Hodgetts Foley, of Prestwood House in Staffordshire was a British MP.

He was the second son of the Hon. Edward Foley of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire and his wife Eliza Maria Foley Hodgetts. He inherited the Prestwood estate from his mother, whose mother Eliza Foley was a descendant of Philip Foley.

He represented the borough of Droitwich in Parliament from 1822 to 1835 as a Whig and East Worcestershire from 1847 to 1861.

He married Charlotte Margaret Gage, daughter of John Gage and Mary Milbanke, on 20 October 1825. Their son was Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts-Foley