Background
His father, William Garnett, a cotton merchant of Lark Hill, Salford, had acquired a lease of the manor or forest of Bleasdale from the Crown and converted wild lands into meadow and pasture.
His father, William Garnett, a cotton merchant of Lark Hill, Salford, had acquired a lease of the manor or forest of Bleasdale from the Crown and converted wild lands into meadow and pasture.
He sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1864. He had built Bleasdale Tower and served as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1843. William James bought Quernmore Park c.1842 and inherited the Bleasdale estate on the death of his father in 1863.
He was re-elected in 1859, and held the seat until his resignation on 6 April 1864 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.
He is buried in Brompton Cemetery towards the north-east.
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He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in 1852, and was elected at the 1857 general election as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the borough of Lancaster.