Samuel Trehawke Kekewich (31 October 1796 – 1 June 1873) was an English Tory and later Conservative Party

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1826 to 1830 and from 1858 to 1873.

Kekewich was the son of Samuel Kekewich of Peamore Exeter and his wife Salome Sweet, daughter of George Sweet of Tiverton. He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant

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 and J.P.

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 for Devon.

In 1826, Kekewich was elected unopposed at a by-election as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Exeter

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, and held the seat until 1830. In 1835 he was High Sheriff of Devon

High Sheriff of Devon

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. He stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Liskeard

Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the 1835

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 and 1837 general elections

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. In August 1858, he was elected at an unopposed by-election as an MP for South Devon

South Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

South Devon, formally known as the Southern Division of Devon, was parliamentary constituency in the county of Devon in England. From 1832 to 1885 it returned two Knights of the Shire to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.-Boundaries:In...

. He held the seat until his death in 1873. He was chairman of the visitors of the lunatic asylum and chairman of the board of guardians at St Thomas's Exeter for 21 years.

Kekewich died at the age of 76.

In 1820, he married Agatha Maria Sophia Langston, daughter of John Langston of Sarsden Oxfordshire. His second son was the noted judge Sir Arthur Kekewich

Arthur Kekewich

Sir Arthur Kekewich was a British Chancery Division judge.He was the second son of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich....

; his eldest son Trehawke Kekewich was the father of his grandsons, Sir Trehawke Herbert Kekewich, 1st Baronet and Major General Robert Kekewich

Robert Kekewich

Major General Robert George Kekewich CB was a Victorian era British Army officer.Kekewich was the second son of Trehawke Kekewich, of Peamore House, near Exeter, Devon, and the grandson of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich...

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In 1840, he remarried, to Louisa Buck, daughter of Lewis William Buck of Hartland Abbey

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 and former MP for North Devon. From this marriage, he was the father of George William Kekewich

George William Kekewich

Sir George William Kekewich was a British Liberal Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1906 to January 1910. He attended Eton and Balliol....

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