John Stephenson (MP died 1794)

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John Stephenson (c. 1709 17 April 1794) was a British Member of Parliament.

He was the son and heir of Thomas Stephenson of Bails and Crosslands, Alston, Cumbria and a Member of Parliament for various boroughs in the south-west from 1754 to 1755 and 1761 until his death in 1794. [1]

He was a director of the British East India Company from 1765 to 1768, and had government victualling contracts in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland at the time of the American Revolution. [2]

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References

  1. "STEPHENSON, John (1710-94), of Brentford Butts, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  2. Greene, Jack P. (July 1975). "Social Structure and Political Behavior in Revolutionary America: John Day's Remarks on American Affairs". The William and Mary Quarterly . 3rd Ser. 32 (3): 487. doi:10.2307/1922136. JSTOR   1922136.
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