Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham (1737–1814) was an English judge and politician who sat in the

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from 1768 to 1774.

Life

He was the fourth son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, 7th Baronet and his wife Frances Thompson of Welton, Yorkshire;

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was the eldest son. He became a Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal in 1783 and a

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for thirty years, from 1784 until February 1805. He became 2nd Baron Hotham in May 1813 upon the death of his elder brother,

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. He was succeeded as 3rd baron by his grandson, Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794–1870). He was an MP for

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from 1768 to 1774, and helped prepare the

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. He resigned for his appointment as

; he was then succeeded in Parliament in the by-election of 1775 by John Morton.

Family

Hotham married in 1767 Susanna Hankey, daughter of Sir Thomas Hankey, as her second husband. They had threes sons and three daughters. Of the children: *Beaumont (1768–1799) married Philadelphia Dyke (died 1808), daughter of Sir John Dixon Dyke, 3rd Baronet, and was the father of Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham *

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(1777–1833), Royal Navy officer *Frederick (died 1854), a cleric. *Frances, married in 1797 John Sutton. *Amelia, married in 1798 John Woodcock. *Louisa, married firstly

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, and secondly Charles Woodcock.

References

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