John Jeffrey (1751 – 18 May 1822) was an English politician who was an MP for

Poole Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

from 1796 to 1809.

Life

Jeffrey was

Mayor of Poole The following were mayors of Poole, Dorset, England: *1515–16, 1521–2, 1530–1, 1536–7, 1543–4: William Biddlecombe *1597–1598: Roger Mawdley *1697–8, 1703–4, 1704–5: William Phippard *1798: John Jeffery *2015: Janet Walton *2 ...

in 1798. He served in the last Parliament of Great Britain and the

First Parliament of the United Kingdom In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the member ...

. He died in

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

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, in 1822 and was buried in the British Cemetery there.

References

1751 births 1822 deaths British MPs 1796–1800 UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1807–1812 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Poole Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Poole Mayors of Poole Burials at the British Cemetery, Lisbon {{UK-politician-stub