William Busfield (1773 – 1851) was an English

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

, Whig Member of Parliament for

Bradford Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdo ...

from 1837 to his death. He was the son of Johnson Atkinson M.D. and Elizabeth Busfield, his father having taken the name Johnson Atkinson Busfield after marriage, in order to pass an estate down to his heirs. Like his father, he was a justice of the peace in the

West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, lieu ...

. He was admitted to

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...

in 1790, matriculating in 1791. Two brothers who also went to Cambridge were Johnson Atkinson and Currer Fothergill, who was the father of

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(therefore William Busfield's nephew). In 1837 he was elected for Bradford and in 1840 he and his fellow Bradford M.P. Ellis Cunliffe Lister attended the

World Anti-Slavery Convention The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840. It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge. The excl ...

in London.BFASS Convention 1840
List of delegates, Retrieved 27 August 2015 Busfield later stood and was elected with Perronet Thompson in 1847. This was despite a lack of enthusiasm for his positions from the nonconformist vote. He married Caroline Wood, daughter of Charles Lindley Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Busfield, William 1773 births 1851 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 Politicians from Bradford