Parliament John Newbold Gresham was only member for East Barsetshire.

Whether or not it was true, as stated at the time, that the aspect of
the men with whom he was called on to associate at St Stephen's broke
his heart, it is not for us now to inquire. It is certainly true that
he did not live to see the first year of the reformed Parliament
brought to a close.

The then Mr Gresham was not an old man at the time of his death, and
his eldest son, Francie Newbold Gresham, was a very young man; but,
notwithstanding his youth, and notwithstanding other grounds of
objection which stood in the way of such preferment, and which, it must
be explained, he was chosen in his father's place. The father's
services had been too recent, too well appreciated, too thoroughly in
unison with the feelings of those around him to allow of any other
choice; and in this way young Frank Gresham found himself member for
East Barsetshire, although the very men who elected him knew that they
had but slender ground for trusting him with their suffrages.

Frank Gresham, though then only twenty four years of age, was a married
man, and a father. He had already chosen a wife, and by his choice had
given much ground of distrust to the men of East Barsetshire. He had
married no other than Lady Arabella De Courcy, the sister of the great
Whig earl who lived at Courcy Castle in the west; that earl who not
only had voted for the Reform Bill, but had been infamously active in
bringing over other young peers so to vote, and whose name therefore
stank in the nostrils of the staunch Tory squires of the county.

Not only had Frank Gresham so wedded, but having thus improperly and
unpatriotically chosen a wife, he had added to his sins by becoming