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Hugh Birley (21 October 1817 – 7 September 1883) was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Birley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Following education at Winchester School, he went to India, where he was the head of Birley, Corrie and Company, East India merchants. On his return to England he became a partner in Birley and Company, cotton spinners and also in Charles Macintosh and Company, manufacturers of India rubber goods.[1][2] He married Mabella Baxendale in 1842, and they had two sons and two daughters.[3] They made their home at "Moorland", Didsbury, near Manchester.[1] He was appointed a justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the County Palatine of Lancaster.[3] He was an active supporter of the Church of England, and assisted in the building of a number of Anglican churches and schools in the Manchester area. Birley was granted armorial bearings by the College of Arms, the blazon of which was as follows: Sable on a fesse engrailed between three boars' heads couped argent, a mascle between three cross crosslets of the field, and for the Crest upon a wreath of the colours a demi-boar rampant sable collared argent the chain reflexed over the back or supporting a branch of wild teazle proper, charged on the shoulder with a millrind argent.[4]At the 1868 general election the representation of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester was increased to three members of parliament. Birley was elected as the first Conservative MP for the town, alongside the two sitting Liberal Party members, Thomas Bazley and Jacob Bright. He retained his seat at the ensuing elections of 1874 and 1880. For the final years of his life, Birley was in poor health, and travelled to South Africa and Cannes in the south of France in an attempt to recuperate. However, after May 1883 he was too ill to attend parliament. He died at his Didsbury home in September 1883 aged 66.[1] References
1. ^1 2 Obituary, The Times, Monday, 10 September 1883, p. 4 2. ^Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocrats of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, London, 1899 3. ^1 Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1855 4. ^Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families - A Dictionary of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, London, 1899 External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Manchester | with = Thomas Bazley 1868–1880 | with2 = Jacob Bright 1868–1874, 1876–1883 | with3 = William Romaine Callender 1874–1876 | with4 = John Slagg 1880–1883 | before = Thomas Bazley Jacob Bright | after = Jacob Bright William Henry Houldsworth John Slagg | years = 1868–1883 }}{{S-end}}{{Birley family}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Birley, Hugh}} 11 : 1817 births|1883 deaths|British people of English descent|People from Didsbury|UK MPs 1868–74|UK MPs 1874–80|UK MPs 1880–85|People from Blackburn|People educated at Winchester College|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Birley family |
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