William Leader Maberly (1798–1885) spent most of his life as a British army officer and Whig politician.
Life
He was the eldest child of John Maberly (1777–1845), a currier, clothing manufacturer, banker and MP, who had made and lost a fortune in a lifetime.
He became a member of parliament, initially for Westbury (1819–20), then Northampton (1820–30), then Shaftesbury (1831–32), and finally for Chatham (1832–34).
In 1831 he was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and in 1832 Clerk of the Ordnance; then, in 1834, he became a Commissioner of HM Customs. In 1836, he was appointed as joint secretary to the General Post Office, where he strongly opposed the introduction of the Penny Post, a plan championed by Rowland Hill to charge a fixed price for postage (as is now the normal practice in most of the world). One of Maberly's principal secretaries during his time at the Post Office was the novelist Anthony Trollope, who later parodied Maberly as Sir Boreas Bodkin in the novel Marion Fay. On stepping down from the Post Office in 1854 he was appointed a Commissioner of Audit, remaining in post until 1867.
In 1865, the Canadian Post Office Department Secretary William Dawson LeSueur named the settlement of Maberly, Ontario in Maberly's honour.
Marriage
He married Irish novelist Catherine C. Prittie (1805–75) in 1830. Their only child, William Anson Robert Maberly, died at the age of 29 in the Isle of Wight.
References
- Stooks Smith, Henry (1973) . Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 378. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- ^ "MABERLY, William Leader (1798-1885), of Shirley House, Surr". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- "MABERLY Catherine Charlotte". Friends of Northwood Cemetery. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
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| Preceded byRalph Franco Lord Francis Conyngham |
Member of Parliament for Westbury 1819–1820 With: Lord Francis Conyngham |
Succeeded byJonathan Elford Nathaniel Barton |
| Preceded bySpencer Compton Sir Edward Kerrison |
Member of Parliament for Northampton 1820 – 1830 With: Sir George Robinson |
Succeeded bySir George Robinson Sir Robert Gunning |
| Preceded byEdward Penrhyn William Stratford Dugdale |
Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury 1831 – 1832 With: Edward Penrhyn |
Succeeded byJohn Sayer Poulter |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Chatham 1832 – 1834 |
Succeeded byGeorge Stevens Byng |
| Military offices | ||
| Preceded byThomas Francis Kennedy | Clerk of the Ordnance 1832–1834 |
Succeeded bySir Andrew Leith Hay |
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