John Pollexfen Bastard

John Pollexfen Bastard

John Pollexfen Bastard (18 September 1756 – 4 April 1816) was a British Tory politician.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell in 1783 and for the Devonshire Constituency from 1784. He stood down in 1812 and was succeeded by his son, Edmund, who held the seat until 1830.

According to the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Bastardindirectly inspired the familiar form of the children's rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard..."after instructing its author Sarah Catherine Martin (his sister in law) to "run away and write one of your stupid little rhymes."

Bastard owned several houses and large tracts of land in western England including his main residence Kitley House.

He can be spotted in Karl Anton Hickel's [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp06230 "William Pitt addressing the House of Commons on the French Declaration of War", 1793] in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (England).

External links

* [http://www.kitleyhousehotel.com/ Kitley House Hotel]

References

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