William Newland (MP), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Member of Parliament (1685-1738)
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About William Newland (MP)
- William Newland (c.
- 1685–1738), of Gatton, Surrey and St James’s Park, Westminster, was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1738. Newland was baptized on 9 March 1685, the third but eldest surviving son of Sir George Newland, a wealthy scrivener of London, and his wife Rebecca Turgis, daughter of Edward Turgis, Draper, of London.
- In 1703, he inherited the manor of Gatton, which had control of one of the Parliamentary seats at Gatton, from Thomas Turgis, MP to whom he was distantly related.
- He matriculated at St John’s College, Oxford on 13 May 1703, aged 17 and was also admitted at Inner Temple in 1703.
- He married Martha Shepeard (died 1724), daughter of Edmund Shephard, Painter-Stainer, of Fleet Street, London on 25 July 1710.
- In 1711, he was called to the bar.Newland was an ardent Tory, and in 1710 provided Dr Sacheverell with a glass carriage so the crowds could see him when he was called to Parliament, and was said to have thrown money at the crowd to incite them to cheer.
- At the first opportunity after coming of age, Newlands was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Gatton at the 1710 general election.
- He was considered a ‘worthy patriot’ for helping to discover the mismanagements of the previous ministry and a ‘Tory patriot’ for opposing the continuation of the war.
- At the 1713 general election he was returned unopposed at Gatton and gave his attention the return of his father as MP for the City of London.
- However his father committed suicide on 26 March 1714, probably in a temporary fit of insanity.
- Newland remained active in Parliament.Newland was returned unopposed at the 1715 general election.
- With the change of administration, he was one of the Tories who were dismissed from the Surrey commission of the peace in 1716.
- He voted against the Government in all recorded divisions in that Parliament and subsequent parliaments after he was returned in 1722, 1727 and 1734.Newland died on 4 May 1738, leaving three daughters.
- His brother George succeeded to his Parliamentary seat at Gatton.
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