John Willis Fleming
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John Willis Fleming (1781–1844) was an English landed proprietor and Conservative Member of Parliament.
He was born at Bletchley in Buckinghamshire on 28 March 1781. He was educated at Eton College. He was the great grandson of the antiquary Browne Willis. In 1813 he changed his name by Private Act of Parliament from John Barton Willis to John Fleming, and he was also known thereafter as John Willis Fleming. In 1813, he married Christophera Buchanan. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1817. He was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire in 1820, and again in 1826 and 1830; and jointly with Henry Combe Compton for South Hampshire in 1835, 1837, and 1841.
John Willis Fleming died at Athens, Greece on 18 July 1844, and is buried at North Stoneham church in Hampshire, near his seat, Stoneham Park.
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- Brown, David, Palmerston, South Hampshire and Electoral Politics, 1832-1835. Hampshire Papers 26 (Winchester, 2003)
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