Frederick Villiers Meynell

Frederick Villiers Meynell (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1872) was a British Whig politician.

[3] He was returned to parliament for the rotten borough of Saltash in 1832, but lost his seat the following year when the constituency was abolished in the Great Reform Act.

[5] However, he was unseated on petition already in March of that year on the grounds that he had not enough real estate income and for having bribed the voters.

However, in April 1842 his and Dyce Sombre's elections were declared void due to "gross, systematic and extensive bribery".

[6] He was later given a sinecure by Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, a Cambridge contemporary, who appointed him a Registrar of Deeds for Middlesex.