Ambrose Manaton (politician, 1648)

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Ambrose Manaton (* before January 17, 1648 , † between April 30 and October 1696 ) was an English politician who was elected eight times as a member of the House of Commons .

origin

Ambrose Manaton came from the Manaton family , a family of the gentry of Cornwall . He was baptized on January 17, 1648 as the eldest son of his father Ambrose Manaton and his second wife Jane Mapowder . His father had become a landowner as a younger son through his first marriage, but died in 1651. This made Manaton the heir to his father's estates, which included Trecarrell in Cornwall. Through his mother he inherited part of the property of his uncle Anthony Mapowder from Holsworthy in Devon . Manaton attended Gray's Inn in 1666 and studied at Exeter College , Oxford in 1667 .

Political activity

From 1673 Manaton was active in various management committees in Devon and Cornwall, to this he was captain of the Devon militia before 1680 . Manaton had inherited property from his father in Newport , not far from Trecarrell . In a by-election for the House of Commons in February 1678, he prevailed against John Coryton and Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet, as MPs for the borough . In the general election in February 1679, however, his candidacy for Camelford failed , where he owned other estates. In contrast, he was re-elected as MP for Newport in March. After he had hardly been active in the House of Commons before, he remained completely inactive in the new parliament and did not even take part in the vote on the Exclusion Bill . In the same year he became mayor of Tintagel for one year , so that in the fall of 1679 he led the general election in Borough Bossiney . He himself was re-elected as MP for Newport in October. However, if he had previously rather sympathized with the opposition under Shaftesbury , he was now considered a supporter of the Tories . In 1681 he was re-elected for Newport, but in the general election in 1685 the young John Speccott was nominated as a candidate for the Tories in his place , so that he was eliminated from the House of Commons. In 1688 the Earl of Bath proposed him again as the Tories' new candidate for Camelford. In the general election in January 1690, he was then elected together with his younger brother Henry as MP for Camelford. His simultaneous candidacy for Tavistock , where he had acquired Kilworthy House through the inheritance of his wife , failed, however. His objection to the election was also rejected. Again he remained politically inactive and did not take part in more important votes. Politically, he was still more than Tory, but occasionally he also seemed to be the policy of King William III. to have supported. In early 1696 he immediately signed the Association , a show of loyalty to the king. From 1689 he held the post of Justice of the Peace for Devon and since 1692 that of Justice of the Peace for Cornwall. In the general election in 1695, he ran again for both Camelford and Tavistock. While he was re-elected as MP for Camelford, his candidacy for Tavistock failed again. On November 29, 1695, he objected to his defeat, which was granted on March 13, 1696. After accepting his election for Tavistock in March 1696, he took a leave of absence from the House of Commons and died before he could again attend a meeting. The exact date of his death is uncertain. Having fallen ill several times in the previous years, he wrote his will on April 30, 1696. He is said to have been buried in Tavistock on June 1, but according to other sources, he did not die until September 26 or October 1696.

Marriages and inheritance

On October 29, 1674, Manaton had married Elizabeth Kelly , the only daughter of William Kelly from Tavistock, Devon. After the death of her father, she inherited Kilworthy House. With her he had a son who, however, died as a child. After the death of his first wife Manaton married on October 23, 1690 Rachel Carew (1669-1705), a daughter of John Carew, 3rd Baronet from Antony . The marriage remained childless. After Manaton's death, his holdings fell to his younger brother Henry. He had earmarked an annual payment of £ 300 for his widow Rachel. Rachel served as a loose model for the novel My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daphne Du Maurier: Review of My Cousin Rachel - Ann Willmore. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Manaton, Ambrose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH before January 17, 1648
DATE OF DEATH between April 30, 1696 and October 1696