1st Lord Ormathwaite

1st Lord Ormathwaite
Title:1st Lord
Surname:Ormathwaite
Year elected:1838
Last year on list:1880
Elected as:Sir J B Walsh, Bart, MP
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John Benn Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (9 December 1798 – 3 April 1881), known as Sir John Walsh, Bt, between 1825 and 1868, was a British Tory and Conservative Party politician.

He served as High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Radnorshire for 1823. He then sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sudbury between 1830 and 1835 and 1838 and 1840 and for Radnorshire between 1840 and 1868. He also served as Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Radnorshire from 1842 to 1875. In 1868 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ormathwaite, of Ormathwaite in the County of Cumberland.

Yachts Owned

NameRig ClassfromtoMMSI
Neuha Cutter 1838 1838  
Amazon Cutter 1840 1856  
Amazon Cutter 1857 1861  
Amazon Yawl 1862 1870  

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