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In 1818, Staniforth was criticised for participation in the profits of the East India Company monopoly amongst other things. Now facing financial difficulty, he announced his retirement from Parliament before the parliamentary election of that year. He was however nominated by a committee of friends
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His uncle Philip Green brought him to Hull and persuaded him to stand for election to Parliament. Philip Green used his own popularity, gained through his shipping interests which brought money into the town, to ensure that John was elected in 1802 to represent Hull, a seat he would hold until 1818.
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Philip Green died in 1803 and Staniforth increased his interest in Hull by setting up his own shipping business. He participated in attracting the
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to the Hull ports and in 1804 he procured naval contracts with the Hull naval yard. He was a director of the
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John Staniforth was the son of Charles Staniforth, a merchant of both the Broad Street Buildings, London and
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John Staniforth was recorded on a list of 'staunch friends' of the abolition of the
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
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Quay, Yorkshire and had a total of five children, of which four survived.
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were notable Hull shipowners, and his uncle Joseph Green was based in
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Staniforth died in 1830. He had married in 1793 Maria Pitts of
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but in the event was narrowly defeated at the polls.
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John William Staniforth
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Oswald Staniforth
Bank of England
Kingston-Upon-Hull
Joseph Green
Königsberg
East India Company
Bank of England
slave trade
Richard Bland
Whigs
Bridlington
"Mr John Staniforth"


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