- Source: William Acton (Wicklow MP)
Lieutenant Colonel William Acton (1789 – 10 April 1854) was an Irish Conservative Party politician.
Acton was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the disembodied Wicklow Militia on 30 April 1833.
He was elected at the 1841 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wicklow,
having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1832 and 1837.
He was re-elected unopposed in 1847, but resigned the following year
by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.
References
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Acton