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Autograph Letter Signed, agreeing to present the petitions sent to him. 1 page 7 x 5 inches, fine, with a separate portrait of Villiers (9 x 8 inches). 105 Pall Mall, 19 May 1841. Charles Pelham Villiers (1802 – 1898), Leader of the Corn Law movement, lawyer and politician from the Villiers family who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament. Pelham Villiers also holds the distinction of the oldest candidate to win a parliamentary seat, at the age of 93.