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George Thornhill (MP)
George Thornhill
was an
English
Conservative
Member of Parliament
.
Thornhill was the eldest son of another
George
Thornhill, of
Diddington
Hall,
Huntingdonshire
. He was
educated
at
Eton
and
St John's College, Cambridge
. He
studied
law
and was admitted to the
Inner Temple
in
1805
. He was
High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
in 1836. He was
elected
to Parliament for the
Huntingdonshire constituency
in the
1837 general election
and held the seat until his
death
.