Robert Wilmot-Horton

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6. Lamont, Stephen Peter (2015). "Robert Wilmot Horton and Liberal Toryism" (PDF). University of Nottingham.
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Further reading

• Brynn, Edward (1972). "Politics and Economic Theory: Robert Wilmot Horton, 1820-1841". The Historian. 34 (2). Wiley: 260–277. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1972.tb00411.x. ISSN   0018-2370. JSTOR   24442850.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton Bt FRS GCH
Portrait of Wilmot-Horton in the 1820s by Richard James
6th Governor of British Ceylon

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir John Chetwode, Bt Sir John Fenton Boughey	Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1818–1830 With: William Kinnersley, 1818–1823 Evelyn Denison, 1823–1826 Richardson Borradaile 1826–1830	Succeeded by Richardson Borradaile William Henry Miller
Political offices
Preceded by Henry Goulburn	Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1821–1828	Succeeded by Hon. Edward Stanley
Government offices
Preceded by John Wilson acting governor	Governor of Ceylon 1831–1837	Succeeded by James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Robert Wilmot	Baronet (of Osmaston) 1834–1841	Succeeded by Robert Edward Wilmot