Frederick Barne was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1830 to 1832.

In 1830 Barne was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for the rotten borough

Rotten borough

A "rotten", "decayed" or pocket borough was a parliamentary borough or constituency in the United Kingdom that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within Parliament....

 of Dunwich

Dunwich (UK Parliament constituency)

Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1298 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act....

 and held the seat until 1832 when it was abolished under the 1832 Reform Act. He lived at Sotterley HalI

Sotterley

Sotterley, originally Southern-lea from its situation south of the river, is a parish in the English county of Suffolk, located approximately south-east of Beccles and east of Willingham St Mary and Shadingfield. The parish is primarily agricultural with a dispersed population of 110...

 and was High Sheriff of Suffolk

High Sheriff of Suffolk

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 in 1851.

Barne married Mary Anne Elizabeth Honywood, eldest daughter of Sir John Edward Courtenay Honywood, 6th Baronet

Honywood Baronets

The Honywood Baronetcy, of Evington in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 19 July 1660 for Edward Honywood. He was the son of Sir John Honywood, High Sheriff of Kent from 1607 to 1609. The second Baronet represented Canterbury in the House of Commons. The...

. Their son Frederick St John Newdigate Barne

Frederick St John Newdigate Barne

Frederick St John Newdigate Barne was a British army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885....

 was later MP for East Suffolk.

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