Mordaunt Bisset

"The General"
Bisset as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1881

Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (1825 – c.August 1884)^[1] was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for West Somerset at the 1880 general election,^[2] but resigned from the House of Commons on 18 November 1883 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.^[3] He evidently also served as Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds from 1855 to 1881.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
2. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
3. ^ Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850". House of Commons Library. http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf. Retrieved 30 November 2009. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mordaunt Bisset

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hon. Arthur Hood Vaughan Lee	Member of Parliament for West Somerset 1880 – 1883 With: Vaughan Lee to 1882 Edward Stanley from 1882	Succeeded by Charles Isaac Elton Edward Stanley

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Name	Bisset, Mordaunt Fenwick
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Date of birth	1825
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Date of death	1884
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