Thomas Tyrwhitt (MP)

Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, after serving as private secretary to the Prince of Wales,[1] Tyrwhitt was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Okehampton in 1796.

[2] Tyrwhitt was responsible for the construction of several roads across Dartmoor, a hamlet called Princetown named in honour of the Prince of Wales, a prison for prisoners of war captured during the Napoleonic Wars now known as HM Prison Dartmoor, as well as the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway.

[2] He became Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1796 and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in 1803.

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