Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham

Portrait (1758–1759), oil on canvas, of Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Bt, by Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)

Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet (16 February 1737 – 26 September 1763)[1] was a British baronet and Whig politician.

Born in Golden Square in Middlesex, he was the only son of Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 5th Baronet and his wife Catharine, daughter of James Harris.[2] In 1749, aged only twelve, Knatchbull-Wyndham succeeded his father as baronet.[3] He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford until 1757 and began then his Grand Tour.[4] After his return in 1760, he entered the British House of Commons, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent in the following three years.[4] In Parliament he voted against the Treaty of Paris (1763).[4] Knatchbull-Wyndham died, aged 26, unmarried and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle Edward Knatchbull.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  2. ^ "ThePeerage - Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Bt". Retrieved 10 April 2007.
  3. ^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 158.
  4. ^ a b c Sir Lewis Namier, John Brooke, ed. (2002). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Vol. II. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 12–13.
  5. ^ Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 403.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Kent
1760 – 1763
With: Robert Fairfax 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham
 Baronet
(of Mersham Hatch)
1749 – 1763 		Succeeded by