Robert Lacey Everett

RL Everett election card

Robert Lacey Everett (28 January 1833 – 21 October 1916) was an English farmer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons three times between 1885 and 1910.

Life

Everett was born at Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk, the son of Joseph David Everett and his wife Elizabeth Garwood. He became a yeoman farmer of 375 acres (1.52 km²).^[1]

In 1880 Everett stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at East Suffolk^[2] as a farmers' candidate.^[3] He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodbridge at the 1885 general election but lost the seat in 1886.^[4] He was elected again in 1892, but lost in 1895. He won the seat for the third time in 1906 but did not seek re-election in January 1910.^[4]

Everett died at the age of 83.

Everett married in 1863, Elizabeth Nussey, daughter of Obadiah Nussey of Leeds, a cloth merchant, and manufacturer.

Publications

• Tithes: Their History, Use and Future 1887
• The real causes of agricultural distress 1895

References

1. Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 462. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
3. Debrett's lists him as having been a farmer's candidate in 1880, but Craig lists him as a Liberal.
4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 395. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

Sources

•  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Everett, Joseph David". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​. London: Smith, Elder & Co. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
• C. H. Lees, rev. Graeme J. N. Gooday. "Everett, Joseph David (1831–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33049. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Everett