sentences:  Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, and in June the following year Hesketh-Fleetwood was knighted in the Coronation honours list and created Baronet Fleetwood.He remained MP for Preston until the 1847 general election, although towards the end of his parliamentary career he was recorded as a Liberal MP.In 1840 he translated Victor Hugo's pamphlet, "The Last Day of a Condemned Man", with a foreword entitled "Observations on capital punishment" that made clear Hesketh-Fleetwood's abolitionist stance on the issue.