Thomas Houldsworth

Who was Thomas Houldsworth?

Thomas Houldsworth was a Tory, and then Conservative Party, politician in England. He was a Member of Parliament for 34 years, from 1818 to 1852.

Houldsworth MP for Pontefract from 1818 to 1830, and then for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1830 until the borough was disenfranchised at 1832 general election. He was then elected for the Northern division of Nottinghamshire, and held that seat until he stepped down from the House of Commons at the general election in July 1852. He died two months later, aged 80.