Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet
Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet (19 April 1721 – 18 January 1772)[1] of Waltons, Ashdon, Essex was a British politician and baronet.
He was the only son of Sir Henry Maynard, 3rd Baronet and his wife Catherine Gunter, daughter of George Gunter.[2] In 1738, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3] Maynard entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Essex in 1759, representing the constituency until 1772.[4]
On 13 August 1751, he married Charlotte Bisshopp, second daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet, and by her he had four children, three sons and one daughter.[5] His oldest son Charles succeeded to the baronetcy, and by a special remainder also succeeded his kinsman Charles Maynard, 1st Viscount Maynard as 2nd Viscount Maynard in 1775.[6]
References
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- ^ Collins, Arthur (1812). Sir Egerton Brydges (ed.). Collin's Peerage of England. Vol. VI. London: T. Bensley. p. 289.
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. pp. 326.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Essex". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
- ^ Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. II. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 469.
- ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 155.
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