Joseph Ablett

He attended Manchester Grammar School from 1783 and in 1804 purchased Llanbedr Hall in Llanbedr-Dyffryn-Clwyd, near Ruthin, from Rev.

He polled the same number of votes - 273 - as Frederick Richard West of Ruthin Castle, who was also contesting the Denbigh Boroughs constituency.

[2][8] His correspondence, some of which survives at Denbighshire Archive Service, included dealings with the antiquary William Owen Pughe and the sculptor John Gibson.

The couple had been childless and Llanbedr Hall passed to John Jesse, a relative who himself became High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1856.

[2][10] In 1837, Ablett edited and privately published a compilation of writings by friends titled Literary Hours.