NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wrottesley, John Wrottesley, Baron, 1771-1841 NRA: Wrottesley John (1771-1841) 1st Baron Wrottesley DNB: Wrottesley, John, first Baron Wrottesley (1771–1841), politician LBT ID: LdWrott1 VIAF ID: 88440221 LOC ID: nb2009010651 | B/BAP: 1771-10-25 DIED: 1841-03-16 |
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After education at Westminster School and military service he was a Whig MP for Lichfield
(1799-1806) and Staffordshire (1823-37); he was raised to the peerage in 1838. | |