William Aislabie (died 1773)

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William Aislabie (died 1773), of Ditton, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.

Aislabie was born before 1706, the only son of William Aislabie of Waverley, Surrey ^[1]

At the 1727 British general election, Aislabie was brought in as Member of Parliament for Ripon by his cousin, William Aislabie of Studley Royal. He is not recorded in any division list and seems to have made no speeches. He did not stand at the 1734 British general election.

The 1727 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was triggered by the death of King George I; at the time, it was the convention to hold new elections following the succession of a new monarch. The Tories, led in the House of Commons by William Wyndham, and under the direction of Bolingbroke, who had returned to the country in 1723 after being pardoned for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1715, lost further ground to the Whigs, rendering them ineffectual and largely irrelevant to practical politics. A group known as the Patriot Whigs, led by William Pulteney, who were disenchanted with Walpole's government and believed he was betraying Whig principles, had been formed prior to the election. Bolingbroke and Pulteney had not expected the next election to occur until 1729, and were consequently caught unprepared and failed to make any gains against the government party.

Ripon was a constituency sending members to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1983, centred on the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire.

William Aislabie of Studley Royal, North Yorkshire was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for over 60 years from 1721 to 1781. His long unbroken service in the House of Commons was only surpassed, more than 100 years after his death, by the 63 years achieved by Charles Pelham Villiers at Wolverhampton.

Aislabie was married and died on 11 April 1773 leaving one son.

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References

↑ "AISLABIE, William (bef.1706-73), of Ditton, Surr". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 April 2019.

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Preceded by William Aislabie John Scrope	Member of Parliament for Ripon 1727 – 1734 With: William Aislabie	Succeeded by William Aislabie Thomas Duncombe

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