Francis Winnington (politician, 1704)

Francis Winnington (February or March 1704 , † after 1754) was a British politician.

Life

Francis Winnington was the eldest son of Francis Winnington and his wife Anne Jackson. He attended Westminster School and Trinity College at the University of Oxford . He was inducted into the Middle Temple in 1722 and admitted to the bar in 1728. In 1733, at the instigation of his first cousin, Thomas Winnington , he became a solicitor of the Admiralty . In June 1747 he resigned from this post to run for a seat in the House of Commons in Borough Droitwich . Winnington was a member of the House of Commons from December 9, 1747 to 1754. His grandfather Francis Winnington , his two uncles Salwey Winnington and Edward Jeffreys , and his first cousin Thomas Winnington were MPs in the House of Commons. His nephew Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet later also followed this family tradition.

Francis Winnington was married to Susannah Courtney. The marriage resulted in two daughters.

literature

• Romney Sedgwick: Winnington, Francis (b.1704), of Broadway, Worcs. In: Romney Sedgwick (ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1715-1754. HMSO, London 1970, ISBN 0-1188-0098-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ William Betham: The Baronetage of England (1803)
2. ↑ John Debrett, William Courthope: Debrett's Baronetage of England (1835)
3. ↑ Rosemarie McGerr: A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England (2011)