Home › V › Villiers (CHARLES PELHAM an and elected)

Villiers (CHARLES PELHAM an and elected)

CHARLES PELHAM, an 1827; and elected to Parliament as a Free Trade Liberal in 1834. He represented his constituency for 63 years. In 1838, at the head of 38 Free Traders in Parliament, he led the movement for an investigation of the Corn I moved their repeal, and continued to Laws; in 1840 VILLIERS agitate the question year after year till the repeal act was finally passed in 1846.

He was elected chairman of the th Committee on Public Houses in 1853; opposed vested rights in licenses; brought forward in Parliament the question of postal reform; and was president of the Poor Law Board in 1859-1866. While holding the last office he was instrumental in the passage of the bill making unions chargeable for all the poor within their districts. He died in London, England, Jan. 16, 1898.