Robert Lacey Everett (28 January 1833 – 21 October 1916) was an English farmer and
Liberal
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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three times between 1885 and 1910.
Life
Everett was born at
Rushmere St Andrew
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,
Suffolk
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, the son of Joseph David Everett and his wife Elizabeth Garwood. He became a yeoman farmer of .
[Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]
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In 1880
Events
January
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Everett stood unsuccessfully for Parliament
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at East Suffolk[Debrett's lists him as having been a farmer's candidate in 1880, but Craig lists him as a Liberal.] He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodbridge
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at the 1885 general election but lost the seat in 1886
Events January
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British rule in Burma, British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5–January 9, 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson ...
.1892
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January
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, but lost in 1895
Events January
* January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...
. He won the seat for the third time in 1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
but did not seek re-election in January 1910.cloth merchant
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, and manufacturer.
Publications
* ''Why the Malt Tax should be repealed'', 865?
* ''Tithes: their history, use and future'', 1887.
* ''Y Degwm: ei hanes, ei ddefnyddiad a'i ddyfodol'' ranslation into Welsh of ''Tithes ...'' 1887.
* ''Agricultural distress: a cause and a remedy'', 1893.
* ''The real cause of agricultural distress'', 1895.
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1833 births
1916 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1892–1895
UK MPs 1906–1910
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
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