Thomas Plumer Halsey MP (26 January 1815 – 24 April 1854) was a member of parliament for

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from 1846 to 1854.

Early life

He was the son of Joseph Thompson Whately (1774–1818), who, on his marriage in 1804 to Sarah Halsey (d. 1864), the only child of Thomas Halsey, MP, assumed that surname by act of parliament. Among his siblings were Emma Halsey (wife of William Tyrwhitt-Drake) and Jane Halsey (wife of George Tyrwhitt-Drake). From his mother's second marriage to the Rev. John Fitz Moore, he had an elder half-sister, Georgiana Theodosia Halsey, who married Col. Leopold Grimston Paget (youngest son of

Berkeley Paget The Honourable Berkeley Thomas Paget (2 January 1780 – 26 October 1842) was a British politician. Background Paget was the sixth son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and Jane, daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné. He was the ...

, MP, and a grandson of

Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (13 January 166330 August 1743), of Beaudesert, Staffordshire, and West Drayton, Middlesex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 until 171 ...

). His paternal grandfather was Rev.

Joseph Whately Joseph Whately or Whateley (1730–1797) was an English clergyman and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. Life He was the youngest brother of the politician Thomas Whately. He was vicar of Widford, Hertfordshire, from 1768 to 1790, and prebendary of ...

, of

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, Rector of Widford, and

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Career

Halsey was elected member of parliament for

unopposed in January 1846 following the elevation of the previous incumbent, James Grimston to the

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. Halsey owned and estate called The Hall in Hertfordshire.

Personal life

On 23 January 1839, he married Frederica Johnston, the only child of Gen. Frederick Johnston, at

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. Together, they were the parents of: * Frederick Halsey (1839–1927), who married Mary Julia Wells in 1865. * Ethelbert Arthur Sackville Halsey (d. 1854), who died as an infant. On 24 April 1854, Halsey, his wife and his infant son, Ethelbert, were drowned in the shipwreck of the steamer '' SS Ercolano'' in the

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, along with 13 other English passengers. Fellow passenger

Sir Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–183 ...

survived by swimming. Their older son,

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survived as he was a pupil at

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at the time. He went on to become the first of the

Halsey Baronets The Halsey Baronetcy, of Gaddesden Place, Gaddesden in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 June 1920 for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician Sir Frederick Halsey, 1st ...

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