William Acton (Wicklow MP)
Lieutenant Colonel William Action (1789 – 10 April 1854)[1] was an Irish Conservative Party politician.
He was elected at the 1841 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wicklow,[2] having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1832 and 1837.[2]
He was re-elected unopposed in 1847, but resigned the following year[2] by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.[3]
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
- ^ a b c Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922. A New History of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 323. ISBN 0901714127. ISSN 0332-0286.
- ^ "No. 20852". The London Gazette. 2 May 1848. p. 1705.
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