Politician and translator, educated at Eton College, and at Christ Church, Oxford; he a lord of the Treasury under Lord Melbourne's administration and Whig MP for Ipswich (1837-38) and Devonport (1840-54) and secretary to the Treasury (1846-50).

REFERENCES TO Henry Tufnell:

Sydney Smith to Sir Robert John Wilmot Horton, 8 February 1836 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)