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DeutschSir John Chetwode, 4th Baronet
Sir John Chetwode, 4th Baronet (11 May 1764 – 17 December 1845)[1] was a British politician and baronet.
Born in Stockport, he was the only surviving son of Sir John Chetwode, 3rd Baronet and his wife Dorothy Bretland, third daughter of Thomas Bretland.[2] In 1779, he succeeded his father as baronet.[2]
He was commissioned as a captain in the Staffordshire Yeomanry when it was formed on 4 July 1794. He remained with the regoient until 1800, but apparently never commanded a Troop.[3]
He entered the British House of Commons in 1815, sitting for Newcastle-under-Lyme until 1818.[4] He represented Buckingham as Member of Parliament (MP) from 1841 until his death in 1845.[5]
On 26 October 1785, he married firstly Lady Henrietta Grey, eldest daughter of George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford in Dunham Massey.[2] She died in 1826[6] and Chetwode married Elizabeth Bristow, daughter of John Bristow in 1827.[7] He had seven daughters and eight sons by his first wife.[6] Chetwode died, aged 82 at his residence in Bognor Regis and was buried in Mucklestone.[8] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son John.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. pp. 400–402.
- ^ Capt P.C.G. Webster, The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield: Lomax, 1870, pp. 3–4; Appendix.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Newcastle-under-Lyme". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Buckingham". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Sylvanus, Urban (1826). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: John Nichols and Son. p. 94.
- ^ Cave, Edward (1846). The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first [-fifth], for the year 1731 [-1735] ... Printed and sold at St John's Gate [by Edward Cave]; by F. Jefferies in Ludgate-Street. p. 315.
- ^ a b Sylvanus, Urban (1846). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part I. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 315.
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