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Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale (23 January 1790 – 10 December 1832) was an English Peer of the Realm.[1][2]

Lister was the son of Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale, and Rebecca Feilding.[2][3] He attended Westminster School from 1800 to 1804[4] and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 2 November 1807.[5]

In February 1826 he married his second cousin, Adelaide, the daughter of Thomas Lister (1772–1828) of Armitage Park, Staffordshire. They had four children: Thomas, born 1828; Adelaide, born 1827; Isabel, born 1830; and Elizabeth, born 1833 (after Lister had died).[2] He succeeded to the barony on 22 September 1826[1] following the death of his father. He resided at the family estate of Gisburne Park.[6]

In the House of Lords Lister was a supporter of Conservative principles.[6] In October 1831 he voted against the Reform Bill.[6] The result of the vote led to riots across England. Lister had to summon troops from Burnley barracks and arm his own tenants to protect his Gisburne Park estate.[7] In April 1832 he was one of ten peers who had previously voted against the bill but abstained in the subsequent vote.[8] He died later that year at Leamington following a ruptured artery.[9]

His four-year-old son Thomas succeeded to the barony, becoming the youngest Peer of the Realm.[6] His widow, Adelaide, married John Russell, 1st Earl Russell in 1835; she died in 1838.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mr Thomas Lister (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  2. ^ a b c d "Lister Family, Barons Ribblesdale, Family and Estate Records". The National Archives (United Kingdom).
  3. ^ Burke, Bernard (1898). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 1223. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Lister, Thomas, 1790-1832 - Westminster School's Archive & Collections". collections.westminster.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  5. ^ Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Vol. 3. p. 856.
  6. ^ a b c d ""We have to announce the unexpected death of Lord Ribblesdale..."". Bell's Weekly Messenger. 16 December 1832. p. 7. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  7. ^ Navickas, Katrina. "Prelude: The reform crisis, 1830–2". Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848. Manchester University Press. pp. 121–129. doi:10.7228/manchester/9780719097058.003.0013.
  8. ^ "Division On The Reform Bill". The Times. No. 14831. 20 April 1832. p. 2.
  9. ^ "DEATHS". Derby Mercury. 19 December 1832. p. 3. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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