William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton
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William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton PC (7 December 1800 – 1 June 1876), known as Sir William Jolliffe, Bt, between 1821 and 1866, was a British soldier and Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
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 politician. He was a member of the Earl of Derby's
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley...

 first two administrations as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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 in 1852 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
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 between 1858 and 1859.

Background

Jolliffe was the son of Reverend William John Jolliffe, son of William Jolliffe
William Jolliffe (MP)
William Jolliffe was a long-standing British Member of Parliament.Jolliffe was elected to the House of Commons for Petersfield in 1768, a seat he held until 1802. He married Eleanor Hylton, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hylton, 5th Baronet, and Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Hylton, de...

 and his wife Eleanor Hylton, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hylton, 5th Baronet (who had assumed the surname of Hylton in lieu of his patronymic Musgrave; see Musgrave Baronets
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) and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Hylton, de jure 18th Baron Hylton
John Hylton, de jure 18th Baron Hylton
John Hylton, de jure 18th Baron Hylton was an English politician.Hylton was the second son of John Hylton and his wife, Dorothy née Musgrave...

. Jolliffe first served in the Army and achieved the rank of Captain in the 15th Dragoons. He notably took part in the events at St Peter's Field in Manchester
Manchester
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 in 1819 (the "Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo Massacre
The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation....

"). In 1821, at the age of twenty, Jolliffe was created a Baronet, of Merstham
Merstham
Merstham is a village in the Reigate and Banstead borough of Surrey, England, in the London commuter belt. It is just north of Redhill, near the intersection of the M25 and M23 motorways, on the edge of the North Downs and on the North Downs Way.-History:...

 in the County of Surrey..

Political career

Jolliffe served a year as High Sheriff of Surrey
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 in 1830 and then sat as a Member of Parliament
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 for Petersfield
Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency)
Petersfield was an English Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire. It existed for several hundred years until its abolition for the 1983 general election....

 from 1830 to 1832, 1833 to 1835, 1837 to 1838 and 1841 to 1866 and served under the Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley...

 as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
-Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782-present:*April 1782: Evan Nepean*April 1782: Thomas Orde*July 1782: Henry Strachey*April 1783: George North*February 1784: Hon. John Townshend*June 1789: Scrope Bernard*July 1794: The Hon...

 in 1852 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
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 from 1858 to 1859. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1859 and in 1866 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hylton, of Hylton in the County Palatine of Durham and of Petersfield in the County of Southampton.

Cricket

Jolliffe played a single first-class
First-class cricket
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 match for pre-county club Hampshire
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 in 1825 against pre-county club Sussex. Jolliffe scored 12 runs in the match.

Family

Lord Hylton married, firstly, Eleanor Paget, daughter of the Hon. Berkeley Thomas Paget, in 1825. Their eldest son Hylton Jolliffe was a Captain in the Coldstream Guards
Coldstream Guards
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 but died from cholera
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 during the Crimean War
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. Hylton married, secondly, Sophia Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, 4th Baronet, and widow of William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester FRS , styled The Honourable William Fox-Strangways until 1858, was a British diplomat and Whig politician...

, in 1867. He died at Merstham House near Reigate
Reigate
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 on 1 June 1876, aged 75, and was succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving son from his first marriage, Hedworth
Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton
Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton , was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.-Birth and education:Hylton was the second son of William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton, and Eleanor Paget...

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