WHITTINGTON, Isaac (c.1709-73), of Orford House, Ugley, Essex.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
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Constituency

Dates

15 Feb. 1754 - 1761

Family and Education

b. c.1709, s. of Isaac Whittington, citizen and haberdasher of London. educ. I. Temple 1728. m. (1) 12 Feb. 1736, Miss Fenwick of Bedford Row, Holborn, Mdx., 1da.; (2) 20 Dec. 1759, Miss Hawood, s.p.

Offices Held

A clerk in Chancery c.1730-d.

Biography

Isaac Whittington, a practising lawyer, whose grandfather came from Leominster, Herefordshire, was probably related through his first wife to William Drake of Shardeloes, whose brother, the Reverend Thomas Drake, rector of Amersham, married Whittington’s daughter in 1755. Brought in as a Tory for Amersham on the Drake interest at a by-election early in 1754, he died 25 Apr. 1773.

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754

Author: R. S. Lea

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