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Bamber Gascoyne (the elder)

Bamber Gascoyne (the elder)

18th-century English politician

Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1725–1791), was an 18th-century English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1761 and 1786.

Bamber Gascoyne (1725–1791) was a Lord of the Admiralty and is represented in this cartoon as the two-faced man on the right.[1]

Gascoyne was the son of Sir Crisp Gascoyne and Margaret Bamber. After his education at Felsted School, he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1743.[2]

Gascoyne served as member of Parliament for several constituencies including Maldon (1761–1763), Midhurst (1765–1768), and Truro (1774–1784).[3] From 1779 to 1782 he was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in the administration of Lord North.[4]

He married Mary Green, daughter of Isaac Green, a Lancashire lawyer, and his wife Mary Aspinwall. He was the father of Bamber Gascoyne (junior) and Isaac Gascoyne, ancestor of TV quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne.

References

  1. [1]
    Bamber Gascoyne portraits at NPG.org.uk.
  2. [2]
    Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Gascoyne, Bamber (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. [3]
    Namier, Lewis (1964). "Gascoyne, Bamber (1725-91)". In Namier, Lewis; Brooke, John (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. London: Haynes. ISBN 9780436304200.
  4. [4]
    John Nichols, ed., The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 135 (1824), p. 184
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