William Stapleton (British Army Officer)
William Stapleton may refer to: *William Stapleton (died 1432), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) *William Stapleton (MP for Carlisle) (c. 1495–1544), English politician *Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet, Irish colonial administrator and planter *Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet (c. 1698–1740), his son, English politician, MP for Oxfordshire *William Stapleton (British Army officer) William Stapleton may refer to: *William Stapleton (died 1432), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) *William Stapleton (MP for Carlisle) (c. 1495–1544), English politician *Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet, Irish colonial administrat ...

William Stapleton (died 1432)
William Stapleton may refer to: *William Stapleton (died 1432), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) *William Stapleton (MP for Carlisle) (c. 1495–1544), English politician *Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet, Irish colonial administrator and planter *Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet (c. 1698–1740), his son, English politician, MP for Oxfordshire *William Stapleton (British Army officer) William Stapleton may refer to: *William Stapleton (died 1432), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency) *William Stapleton (MP for Carlisle) (c. 1495–1544), English politician *Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet, Irish colonial administrat ...

Cumberland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cumberland is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of Cumberland East and Cumberland West in 1832. Members of Parliament * ''Constituency created 1290'' MPs 1290–1640 MPs 1640–1832 *''Constituency abolished'' (1832) Notes Elections The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the town of Cockermouth. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contributed to the corruption and ...
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William Stapleton (MP For Carlisle)
William Stapleton (ca. 1495 – 1544), of Wighill, Yorkshire and London, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ... in 1542. References 1490s births 1544 deaths People from the Borough of Harrogate English MPs 1542–1544 {{16thC-England-MP-stub ...
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Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet
Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet (Unknown – 3 August 1686) was an Irish colonial administrator and planter who served as the governor of the Leeward Islands from 1671 to 1686, when he died in office. Born in Ireland to a family of Norman descent, William, as a Royalist during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, followed Charles II into exile in France. Returning to England as part of the Stuart Restoration of 1660, William, as an English Army officer, travelled to the England's colonies in the West Indies, where he served as a prominent colonial official and married into a wealthy planter family, acquiring several slave plantations before dying in Paris in 1686. Early life The third son of Redmond Stapleton, William was born in Ireland as the youngest child of a family which claimed descent from a Norman knight which had settled there during the reign of King Henry II of England. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, William, as a Royalist, followed the defeated Stuar ...
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Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet
Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet ( 1698–1740), of Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, was an English Jacobite and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1740. Early life Stapleton was brought up on Nevis in the British Leeward Islands, the son of Sir William Stapleton, 3rd Baronet and his wife Frances Russell, daughter of Sir James Russell who had acted as governor of the island. In 1699, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 17 April 1714, aged 15. He married Catherine Paul, co-heiress daughter of William Paul of Braywick, Bray, Berkshire and his wife Lady Catherine Fane, daughter of Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland on 28 April 1724. With the marriage he came into possession of Greys Court. Career In the 1720s Stapleton associated with Jacobites including Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton. At the general election of 1727 he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for . He voted a ...
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