Anthony Cracherode (c. 1674–1752), of

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, Wiltshire, was a British government lawyer and politician who sat in the

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from 1728 to 1734 . Cracherode was probably the son of Anthony Cracherode, who was the second son of Mordaunt Cracherode of Cust Hall, Essex. He was admitted at

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and called to the bar in 1702. Cracherode, was appointed chief clerk for Barbados in 1714 on the accession of George I and executed the office by deputy. In May 1715 he was made Treasury solicitor at a salary of £500 p.a. He was active in bringing to trial the rebels of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. He also proposed rigorous prosecution for libel and spreading false news, as a means of controlling the coffee-house politicians. As solicitor to House of Commons committees, he acted on the impeachments of the Earls of Oxford and Wintoun. He was returned as

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for

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at a by-election on 29 January 1728. He voted with the Administration in every recorded division. In 1730, he resigned from his post at the Treasury. He did not stand at the

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. Cracherode retired from public life to spend the rest of his life in religious devotion to prepare for a future and happy immortality. He died unmarried on 22 April 1752 aged 72, leaving his estate to his cousin Lieutenant-Colonel Mordaunt Cracherode, father of

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, the book collector.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cracherode, Anthony 1670s births 1752 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734