Thomas Postlethwaite (MP)
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Thomas Postlethwaite (MP)
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Thomas Postlethwaite was a British politician. One of "Lord Lonsdale's ninepins", he represented the pocket borough of Haslemere, in Surrey, from 1784 to 1786. Postlethwaite's identity is uncertain. He may have been the son of Rev. James Postlethwaite of Fleckney, Leicestershire, or a member of a Cumberland family. He was a client of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, a peer notorious for his attempts to control Parliamentary representation in the northwest of England, and who had bought up th
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British politician
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