William Garnett (politician)

William James Garnett (10 July 1818 – 15 September 1873)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician from Bleasdale in Lancashire.

His father, William Garnett, a cotton merchant of Lark Hill, Salford, had acquired a lease of the manor or forest of Bleasdale from the Crown and converted wild lands into meadow and pasture.

[3] William James bought Quernmore Park c.1842 and inherited the Bleasdale estate on the death of his father in 1863.

Garnett married Frances Ann, the daughter of the Revd Henry Hale of King's Walden, Hertfordshire.

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