Sir Thomas Winnington, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Thomas Winnington, Bt
Member of Parliament for Bewdley
In office
1833–1837
Relations Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet (grandfather)
Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (grandfather)
Children7
Parent(s) Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet
Hon. Anne Foley
Education Eton College
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford

Sir Thomas Edward Winnington (1780 – 24 September 1839) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1807 and 1837.

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Early life

Winnington was the eldest son of the Hon. Anne Foley and Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire. [1] Among his siblings were the Rev. Edward Winnington-Ingram, the Rev. Francis Winnington-Ingram, the Rev. Charles Fox Winnington-Ingram, Henry Jeffries Winnington, Elizabeth Winnington (wife of the Rev. Arthur Cyril Onslow and parents of Cyril Onslow), and Harriet Winnington (the wife of Phipps Vanstittart Onslow). [2] [3]

His paternal grandfather was Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley and Hon. Grace Granville (a daughter of George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne). [4]

Winnington attended Eton College from where he graduated in 1793, followed by Christ Church, Oxford, from where he graduated on 6 February 1798. [1]

Career

He inherited the Stanford Court estate from his father in 1805 and was appointed High Sheriff of Worcestershire for 1806 to 1807. [1]

Winnington was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Droitwich in 1807 and held the seat until 1816. He was re elected in the 1831 general election and held the seat for a year. At the 1832 general election he was elected MP for Bewdley and held the seat until 1837, when he was succeeded there by his son Thomas. [5]

Personal life

On 11 November 1810, Winnington married Joanna Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor of Moseley Hall, [6] with whom he had three sons and four daughters, including: [7]

Sir Thomas died on 24 September 1839 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest surviving son, Thomas. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "WINNINGTON, Sir Thomas Edward, 3rd Bt. (1780–1839), of Stanford Court, Worcs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  2. Sharpe, John (1830). Sharpe's Peerage of the British Empire exhibiting its present state and deducing the existing descents from the ancient nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland . Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  3. Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et (1994). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. The Isabel of Essex volume : containing the descendants of Isabel (Plantagenet) Countess of Essex and Eu, with a supplement to the three previous volumes. Genealogical Publishing Company. pp. 300–301. ISBN   978-0-8063-1434-1 . Retrieved 23 November 2021.
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  5. Leigh Rayment House of Commons B Part 3 [Usurped!]
  6. Burke, John Bernard (1854). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. for H. Colburn : by Hurst and Blackett. p. 1074. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  7. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1904. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  8. "DOMVILE, Sir Compton, 1st Bt. (c.1775-1857), of Templeogue and Santry House, co. Dublin". historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 16 April 2021.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Droitwich
1807–1816
With: Andrew Foley
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Droitwich
18311832
With: John Hodgetts-Foley
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bewdley
1832–1837
Succeeded by
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baronet
(of Stanford Court)
1791–1805
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