Walter Ramsden Fawkes

Walter Ramsden Fawkes

Walter Ramsden Fawkes (2 March 1769 – 24 October 1825), Member of Parliament (MP) and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, was a writer and patron of the landscape painter J. M. W. Turner. Their friendship made Turner a regular visitor to Fawkes' home at Farnley Hall, two miles from Otley, near Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Fawkes was elected as an MP for Yorkshire at the 1806 UK general election. At the following year's general election, he nominated himself again, but did not actively contest the poll and took only two votes. ["The Parliaments of England" by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F. W. S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)]

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