Family and Education

b. Sept. 1671, 1st s. of Henry Alington of Swinhope by Elizabeth, da. of William Gamble (alias Bowyear) of Leytonstone, Essex. educ. Merchant Taylors’ 1683-7; L. Inn 1693, called 1708, bencher 1724. unm. suc. fa. 1690.

Offices Held

Recorder, Hertford 1714-d.

Biography

Marmaduke Alington, of an old East Anglian family,1 was family lawyer to the Drakes of Shardeloes.2 On their interest he was returned as a Tory for Amersham in 1728 at a by-election caused by the death of Montague Garrard Drake, whose heir was a child. His only known vote was against the excise bill in 1733 and he did not stand again. He died 5 Sept. 1749.

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754

Author: R. S. Lea

Notes

• 1. Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. 1), 8.
• 2. Tyrwhitt-Drake mss 1/92, 93, Bucks. RO.