WODEHOUSE, William (?1706-37), of Kimberley Hall, Norf.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
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Constituency

Dates

1734 - 13 Mar. 1737

Family and Education

b. ?1706, 1st s. of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Bt., M.P. of Kimberley, Norf.; bro. of Armine Wodehouse. educ. Caius, Camb. 1723. m. Frances, da. of Allen Bathurst, M.P., 1st Earl Bathurst, s.p.

Offices Held

Biography

The Wodehouses were the leading Tory family in Norfolk, which they had frequently represented. Wodehouse, whose father’s name was sent to the Pretender in 1721 as a leading Norfolk Jacobite with an estate of £5,000 p.a.,1 was returned for the county after a close and expensive contest in 1734, when he was also returned for Cirencester by his father-in-law, Lord Bathurst. Choosing to sit for Norfolk, he died v.p.of smallpox in London, 13 May 1737.

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754

Author: Romney R. Sedgwick

Notes

  • 1. Stuart mss 65/10.