Nathaniel Eckersley
Nathaniel Eckersley (1815 – 15 February 1892)[1] was an English mill-owner,[2] banker[3] and Conservative Party politician from Standish Hall,[4] near Wigan[5] in Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons for three years in the 1860s, and two years in the 1880s.
Career
His uncle was Colonel Nathaniel Eckersley, from Laurel House in Hindley, who served with the Duke of Wellington and at the military station established in Manchester after the Peterloo Massacre.[2]
In addition to his cotton mills,[6] Eckersley was a partner of the Wigan Old Bank, formerly Thomas Woodock's, Sons and Eckersley, which amalgamated in 1874 with Parr's Banking Company in Warrington.[3] He was Mayor of Wigan in 1853[7] and in 1873,[8] and was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in September 1863.[9]
In June in 1873 he led Wigan's welcome for the Prince and Princess of Wales, who opened a new hospital in the town,[8] which the Princess named the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.[10]
Parliament
He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Wigan at a by-election in March 1866,[4] following the resignation of the Conservative MP Hon. James Lindsay.[4] Nominations for the contest took place in the moot hall in Wigan, supervised by the Mayor Thomas Knowles.[11] The candidates then addressed the voters in the town hall. Eckersley offered himself as a "free and independent candidate", and said that until then he had never considered himself to be a politician.[11] The Mayor called for a show of hands, which he found to be in favour of Eckersley, but a poll was demanded[11] and Eckersley won 411 votes to the 349 cast for his Liberal opponent John Lancaster.[12]
He was defeated at by John Lancaster (MP) at the 1868 general election, when Liberal candidates took both seats in Wigan, and he did not stand for Parliament again for another 15 years.[12]
He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1878,[13] and in that capacity helped to organise a fund for the dependants of the victims of the explosion on 7 June 1878 at the Wood Pit Colliery in Haydock,[14] where more than 200 miners were killed.[15]
When Wigan's Conservative MP Lord Lindsay succeeded to his father's peerage in 1880, and Eckersley was asked to stand at the by-election in January 1881, but refused.[16] Following the death on December 1883 of Wigan's other Conservative MP Thomas Knowles, Eckersley was returned unopposed[12] at the resulting by-election on 21 December 1883.[17] He held the seat until when Wigan's parliamentary representation was reduced from two seats to one by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and did not contest the 1885 general election.[18]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The London Gazette: no. 23097. p. 2253. 6 April 1866. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 22774. p. 4649. 25 September 1863. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25305. p. 78. 4 January 1884. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Nathaniel Eckersley
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wigan 1866 – 1868 With: Henry Woods |
Succeeded by John Lancaster Henry Woods |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wigan 1883 – 1885 With: Algernon Fulke Egerton |
Succeeded by Francis Powell |
Honorary titles | ||
Preceded by | High Sheriff of Lancashire 1878 |
Succeeded by William Garnett |
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