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for sale the "1st Baron Winmarleigh" John Wilson-Patten Signed 3X5 Album 1st Baron Winmarleigh PC (26 April 1802 –

11 July 1892) was a British Conservative politician. Winmarleigh

was the second son of Thomas Wilson (formerly Patten) of Warrington,

Lancashire, and Elizabeth Hyde, daughter of Nathan Hyde of Ardwick.

His father had in 1800 assumed the surname of Wilson in lieu of Patten in

accordance with the will of Thomas Wilson (his first cousin twice removed), son

of Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1697 to

1755, to whose estates Patten succeeded. However, a few years later the family

assumed the surname of Wilson-Patten. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford,

he became friendly with, amongst others, Edward Stanley, later 14th

Earl of Derby. He was the president of the Oxford Union.

He was appointed Colonel of the part-time 3rd Royal

Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own) on 15 November

1842. During the Crimean War the regiment was embodied for

full-time duty in April 1855 and volunteered for overseas service.

Wilson-Patten accompanied his regiment when it sailed from Liverpool to Gibraltar and

commanded it during a year's garrison duty there, despite his political duties.

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the regiment on

27 February 1872 after his retirement from command. In 1830 Winmarleigh was

elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire, but stood down

the following year. However, in 1832 he returned to Parliament as

representative for the newly created constituency of North Lancashire, a seat

he would hold for the next 42 years. In

the House of Commons he became known as a

supporter of industrial and labour reform, and took an active part in helping

to relieve the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861 to 1865.

However, Wilson-Patten did not hold ministerial office until 1867, when, aged

65, he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in

the last administration of his old friend the Earl of Derby. He was

admitted to the Privy Council the

same year. He remained in this post until the following year, and then served

briefly under Benjamin Disraeli as Chief Secretary for Ireland from

September to December 1868. The latter year he also became a member of

the Irish Privy Council. In 1874, on his

retirement from the House of Commons, he was raised to the

peerage as Baron Winmarleigh, of Winmarleigh in the County Palatine

of Lancaster. However,

he was seldom active in the House of

Lords. He was made Constable of Lancaster Castle in

1879. 

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