John Ashley Warre FRS (5 October 1787 – 18 November 1860) was a British Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was born into a family of colonial merchants, the eldest son of John Henry Warre of Queen Square, Bloomsbury, Middlesex and Belmont Lodge, Hertfordshire and was educated at

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(1796-1804) and

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(1804). He succeeded his father in 1801. He secured the Parliamentary seat of

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in 1812, sitting until 1818 and subsequently represented the constituencies of

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(1820–26),

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(1831–34) and

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(1857–60). He inherited a property in Folkestone from his uncle in 1824 and was appointed

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for 1848–49. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1817. He was also a founder member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and was among those who voted on the resolution to create the SPCA (later in 1840 becoming

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) at the meeting held on 16 June 1824 at

Old Slaughter's Coffee House Old Slaughter's Coffee House was a coffee house in St Martin's Lane in London. Opened in 1692 by Thomas Slaughter, it was the haunt of many of the important personages of the period. The building was demolished in 1843 when Cranbourn Street was co ...

, London which was chaired by

Thomas Fowell Buxton Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786Olwyn Mary Blouet, "Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, first baronet (1786–1845)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed ...

MP (1786-1845). He married three times: firstly Susanna, the daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon; secondly Florence Catherine (died 1837), daughter of Richard Magenis, MP; and thirdly Caroline Temple, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell of Taplow. He left three sons and a daughter.

References

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