Francis Winnington (politician, 1634)

Francis Winnington (around 1670)

Sir Francis Winnington ( 7 November 1634 - 1 May 1700 ) was an English lawyer and politician .

Life

Francis Winnington was the son of John Winnington. He studied at the New Inn and was inducted into the Middle Temple in 1656 . In 1660 he was admitted to the bar. In 1672 he became a Bencher of the Middle Temple. On December 17 of the same year, he was beaten to the Knight Bachelor . From 1672 to 1674 he was Attorney-general for the Duke of York . In 1673 he became crown attorney . From 1674 to 1679 he was Solicitor-General under Charles II. In 1677 he was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in the Borough of New Windsor and thus took over the vacant seat of the late Richard Braham . In 1679 Winnington moved to Borough Worcester , which he represented as an MP until 1685. After Sir Henry Capell (1638-1696) was raised to Baron Capell of Tewkesbury in April 1692 and thus left the House of Commons, Winnington had the opportunity to return to the House of Commons. With his successful candidacy in the corresponding by-election in November 1692 and the following regular election in 1695, he was a member of the House of Commons from 1692 to 1698 as a member of Parliament for the Borough of Tewkesbury . In the general election in 1698, he decided not to run again.

On December 29, 1659 he married Elizabeth Herbert. The marriage produced a daughter. In his second marriage, Winnington was married to Elizabeth Salwey, a daughter of Edward Salwey , who inherited the Stanford Court estate in Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, after the death of her brother . The marriage resulted in four sons, including Salwey Winnington and Edward Jeffreys , and two daughters. Francis Winnington MP is his grandson.

Winnington was Freeman of Bewdley (1676), Windsor (1677) and Worcester (1679).

Web links

• Stuart Handley: Winnington, Sir Francis (1634-1700), of the Middle Temple and Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs. In: Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, DW Hayton (Eds.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0521772214 .
• Leonard Naylor, Edward Rowlands, Geoffrey Jaggar: Winnington, Sir Francis (1634-1700), of the Middle Temple and Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs. In: Basil Duke Henning (Ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1660-1690. Secker & Warburg, London 1983, ISBN 0436192748 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edward Rowlands, Geoffrey Jaggar: Worcester. In: Basil Duke Henning (Ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1660-1690. Secker & Warburg, London 1983, ISBN 0436192748 .