Henry Calthorpe (died 1788)

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Sir Henry Calthorpe (c.1717–1788) K.B. of Elvetham in Hampshire, was a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hindon.

Hindon was a parliamentary borough consisting of the village of Hindon in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1448 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act. It was one of the most notoriously corrupt of the rotten boroughs, and bills to disfranchise Hindon were debated in Parliament on two occasions before its eventual abolition.

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Calthorpe was the only son of Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham and his second wife Barbara (died 1724), eldest daughter of Henry Yelverton, Viscount Longueville and Baron Grey of Ruthyn, and Barbara, second daughter and one of the coheirs of Sir John Talbot, of Laycock in Wiltshire. [1] [lower-alpha 1]

Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham in Hampshire was a Whig Member of Parliament for Hindon.

Calthorpe represented the borough of Hindon in Parliament in 1741–1744. He was created a Knight of the Bath on 28 May in the same year, and installed 20 October following. [1] [2] Sir Henry went mad (he was seen walking down Pall Mall with a red ribbon around his head saying he was off to see the King). After he was declared a lunatic and his cousin James Calthorpe, M.P. was appointed to manage his estate. [2]

Pall Mall, London street in London, England

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James Calthorpe, DL was a British politician and courtier.

Sir Henry died unmarried, at his seat at Elvetham, 14 April 1788; and by his death the male line of this family became extinct. His estates devolved to the children of Barbara his only sister, who was married in 1741 to Sir Henry Gough of Edgbaston, in Warwickshire, M.P. for Totnes and afterwards for Bramber. Henry, their eldest son, on the death of Sir Henry Calthorpe his uncle, assumed the name and arms of Calthorpe, and was created Baron Calthorpe, of Cockthorpe in Norfolk, 15 June 1796. [1]

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Bramber was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons in 1295, and again from 1472 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe, known until 1796 as Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796 when he was raised to the peerage.

Notes

  1. ↑ Calthorpe also had an elder half brother Reynolds Calthorpe, the younger who was the son of Reynolds Calthorpe by a previous marriage
  1. 1 2 3 A.P. 1832, p. 110.
  2. 1 2 Lea 1970.

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