Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts-Foley of Prestwood House, then in Kingswinford parish was a British Member of Parliament.
Background
He was the son of John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley and a descendant of General Thomas Gage and Margaret Kemble, and it is through Kemble that he is a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family from colonial British North America.
Career
He represented South Staffordshire in Parliament from 1857–1868. He inherited the Prestwood estate in Kinver (also partly then in Kingswinford parish) from his father in 1861. He was appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1877.
The whole of the Prestwood estate and a substantial portion of the Stoke Edith estate were sold by Paul by auction in 1913 and 1919.
Sir John Paul Foley is a grandson of Paul.
Membership
17th United Kingdom Parliament. 18th United Kingdom Parliament. 19th United Kingdom Parliament.