Francis Arkwright (politician)

Francis Arkwright belonged to the British gentry. His first wife died after giving birth to a daughter, and he remarried. Arkwright represented East Derbyshire in the British House of Commons from 1874 to 1880.

Arkwright was born in 1846 and baptised onApril of that year in Mayfield, East Sussex, England. His parents were The Reverend Godfrey Harry Arkwright and Frances Rafela Fitzherbert Arkwright . Richard Arkwright was his greatgrandfather, and Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet was a maternal greatgrandfather. His brother William Harry was born one year earlier. A sister Alice was three years younger his mother died one week after giving birth to her. Arkwright waswhen his father remarried. Through his stepmother, he had three more siblings Marian, Godfrey Edward and Walter. His father died young when Francis Arkwright was only 20. William Harry became the vicar of St Marys Church, Wirksworth in 1893 and held the position until 1902.

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