Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth

For Newton Fellowes, 4th Earl of Portsmouth, born Newton Wallop (1772-1854), see Newton Fellowes.

"Young Oxford"
Newton Wallop as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1880

Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth (19 January 1856 - 4 December 1917), known as Viscount Lymington until 1891, was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1891 when he inherited the Earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords.

Lymington was born in Whitchurch, Hampshire, Portsmouth, the eldest son of Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth, and his wife Lady Eveline Alicia Juliana, daughter of Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. Lymington was a J.P. for Hampshire and Devon, and a Deputy Lieutenant. ^[1]

Lymington was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple at a by-election in February 1880,^[2] a seat he held until 1885 when representation was reduced to one member under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. At the 1885 general election, he was the elected MP for South Molton and held the seat until 1891.^[3] In the latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. From 1905 to 1908 he served as Under-Secretary of State for War in the Liberal administration of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

Lord Portsmouth married Beatrice Mary Pease, only child of Edward Pease of Darlington, in 1885. He died in December 1917 at Whitchurch, aged 61, and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother John. The Countess of Portsmouth died in 1935.

References

1. ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
2. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 36. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 258. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• www.thepeerage.com

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Lymington

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Cave Samuel Danks Waddy	Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1880 – 1885 With: Thomas Cave 1880 Sir Robert Carden 1880–1885	Succeeded by George Pitt-Lewis (representation reduced to one member 1885)
New constituency	Member of Parliament for South Molton 1885 – 1891	Succeeded by George Lambert
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Donoughmore	Under-Secretary of State for War 1905 – 1908	Succeeded by The Lord Lucas of Crudwell
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Isaac Newton Wallop	Earl of Portsmouth 1891 – 1917	Succeeded by John Fellowes Wallop