Brent Spencer Follett QC (1810 – 23 January 1887) [1] was a British Conservative politician and barrister.
Born at Topham, he was the fourth son of Benjamin Follett and his wife Ann Webb, daughter of John Webb. [2] His older brother was William Webb Follett (1796-1845), MP and Solicitor General. [2] He was a student of the Inner Temple from 17 March 1828 and then went to the Lincoln's Inn on 21 November 1829, where he was called to the bar on 7 June 1833. [3]
He became a Queen's Counsel on 11 July 1851 and a bencher four months later on 3 November 1851. [3] [4] In 1852, he entered the House of Commons for Bridgwater, representing the constituency as a Member of Parliament (MP) until 1857. [1] With the Land Registry Act 1862, Follett became the first Chief Land Registrar of the new created HM Land Registry, a post he held until his death in 1887. [5]
On 14 October 1848 at Stockport, he married Caroline Amelia Skirrow, youngest daughter of Walter Skirrow. [6] They had two sons, John Skirrow Follett and William Webb Spencer Follett who would both become barristers. [3] [4]
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"Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Bridgwater". Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) - ^ a b Dod, Charles R. (1852). The Parliamentary Companion (2nd ed.). London: Whitaker and Co. p. 144.
- ^ a b c Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar : a biographical hand-list of the members of the various Inns of Court, including Her Majesty's judges, etc. Cornell University Library. London : Printed for the author by Hazell, Watson, and Viney.
- ^ a b "ThePeerage - Brent Spencer Follett". Retrieved 25 December 2006.
- ^ "HM Land Registry, Official Website - History" (PDF). Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1848). The Gentleman's Magazine. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 80.
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