William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton Personal Computer, known as Sir William Jolliffe, Bt, between 1821 and 1866, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Background
Jolliffe was the son of Reverend William John Jolliffe, the son of William Jolliffe, and his wife Eleanor Hylton, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hylton, 5th Baronet (who had assumed the surname of Hylton in lieu of his patronymic Musgrave. See Musgrave Baronets) and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Hylton, de jure 18th Baron Hylton.
Career
He notably took part in the events at Street Peter"s Field in Manchester in 1819 (the "Peterloo Massacre"). In 1821, at the age of twenty, Jolliffe was created a Baronet, of Merstham in the County of Surrey. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1859 and in 1866 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hylton, of Hylton in the County Palatine of Durham and of Petersfield in the County of Southampton.
Jolliffe played a single first-class match for pre-county club Hampshire in 1825 against pre-county club Sussex.
Jolliffe scored 12 runs in the match. Lord Hylton married, firstly, Eleanor Paget, daughter of the Honorary
Berkeley Thomas Paget, in 1825. Their eldest son Hylton Jolliffe was a Captain in the Coldstream Guards but died from cholera during the Crimean War.
Hylton married, secondly, Sophia Penelope, daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, 4th Baronet, and widow of William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, in 1867.
Membership
9th United Kingdom Parliament. 10th United Kingdom Parliament. 13th United Kingdom Parliament.
14th United Kingdom Parliament.
15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament.
17th United Kingdom Parliament. 18th United Kingdom Parliament.
19th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was a member of the Earl of Derby"s first two administrations as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1852 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between 1858 and 1859.
Jolliffe served a year as High Sheriff of Surrey in 1830 and then sat as a Member of Parliament for Petersfield from 1830 to 1832, 1837 to 1838 and 1841 to 1866 and served under the Earl of Derby as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1852 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1858 to 1859.