John Nicholas Fazakerley

John Nicholas Fazakerley (7 March 1787 – 16 July 1852)^[1][2][3][4] was a British Whig^[5] politician. He was Member of Parliament for Lincoln (1812–18), Great Grimsby (1818–20), Tavistock (1820), Lincoln again (1826–30) and City of Peterborough (1830–41).

Career

He was elected at the 1812 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Lincoln,^[6] and held the seat until the 1818 general election,^[1] when he was returned for Great Grimsby.^[7] He held that seat until the 1820 general election,^[2] when was returned for Tavistock,^[8] but he resigned his seat two months later, in May 1820,^[3] by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.

Fazakerley returned to the Commons after a six-year absence when he was returned at the 1826 general election as MP for Lincoln.^[9] He did not contest the seat at the 1830 election, but was returned at a by-election in 1830 as MP for the City of Peterborough.^[10] He sat for Peterborough until the 1841 election,^[4] when he retired from Parliament.^[11]

Meeting with Napoleon

He met the Emperor of the French Napoleon with Lord John Russell on Elba in the winter of 1814.^[12][13]