Robert Hildyard (MP for Whitehaven)

Robert Charles Hildyard (1800 – 7 December 1857)[1] was a British Conservative politician.

Hildyard was born in Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1800.

He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (then known as Katharine Hall), and was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1824.

[2] He was first elected Conservative MP for Whitehaven at the 1847 general election and held the seat until his death in 1857.

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