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William Pole Thornhill (1807 – 12 February 1876) was a British Whig and then Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1853 to 1865. Thornhill was the last member of the family of Thornhill who had owned estates at Stanton Hall, Stanton-in-Peak since the end of the 17th century when John Thornhill married the heiress Mary Bache.〔(Joseph Tilley ''Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire Volume I, The High Peak Hundred - Stanton Old Hall'' )〕 Thornhill and his wife were considerable benefactors to the village, building Holy Trinity Church, Stanton-in-Peak between 1837 and 1838, the reading rooms and "The Stand", originally known as "The Belvedere", a viewing platform giving panoramic views over the Wye Valley. Many of the houses in the village carry the initials "WPT".〔(Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District )〕 Thornhill became High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1836.〔(Bulletins and other state intelligence 1835 P406 )〕〔(J. and J. B. Burke ''Heraldic illustrations'' 1846 )〕 He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for North Derbyshire at a by-election in July 1853, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1865 general election. As a politician he was a strong reformist and built the Earl Grey Tower on the eastern edge of Stanton Moor dedicated to the Reform Act 1832. He was briefly, between 1860 and 1863, a lieutenant in the 9th Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers.〔The United Service Magazine 1863〕 He died at Brighton at the beginning of 1876. Thornhill married Isabella Gell at Wirksworth in 1828. Isabella was the heiress of Hopton Hall. They took the name Gell according to the terms of inheritance and lived briefly at Hopton Hall but in due course renounced the inheritance.〔(National Archives Papers of the Gell family of Hopton Reference D3287 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Pole Thornhill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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