Background
Joseph Planta was the son of another Joseph Planta (1744–1827), who moved from Switzerland to England and who became the Principal Librarian of the British Museum in London. He was born at the British Museum and educated at Eton College.
Joseph Planta was the son of another Joseph Planta (1744–1827), who moved from Switzerland to England and who became the Principal Librarian of the British Museum in London. He was born at the British Museum and educated at Eton College.
Eton College.
He was the Member of Parliament for Hastings, England. Planta became a clerk at the Foreign Office and was Private Secretary to George Canning. In 1813-1814, he was Secretary to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, during his mission to the allied sovereigns.
He was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 25 July 1817 to 22 January 1822.
He was also the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1817. He was the Junior Secretary to the Treasury from 19 April 1827 and then the Senior Secretary to the Treasury from 4 September 1827, during the Canningite Government of 1827–1828 and the Tory Government of 1828–1830.
He was also made a Lord of the Treasury on 21 November 1834 in the Conservative Provisional Government of 1834. He was defeated in 1835.
He lived at Fairlight Place, a stone-built house dating from around 1550 at the head of Fairlight Glen near Hastings.
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He was made a member of the Privy council in 1834.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Hastings in southern England, in 1827, 1830, 1837, and 1841, as a Conservative.