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John Peach-Hungerford (c. 1719–1809) was a British politician who sat in the
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from 1775 to 1790. Peach-Hungerford was the only son of John Hungerford of
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, Wiltshire and his wife St John Topp, daughter of Sir John Topp, 2nd Baronet of
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, Gloucestershire. His father died in 1723 and his mother remarried to Thomas Peach of Dingley Hall, Northamptonshire. He succeeded his step-father in 1770 and took the name of Peach before Hungerford. Peach-Hungerford stood as an independent for
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at a by-election on 12 January 1775. He was returned as
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after a costly and hard-fought contest against
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, the Rutland candidate. In Parliament he maintained an independent line. He was returned unopposed for Leicestershire at the 1780 general election and again at the 1784 general election because of a compromise made between the two county interests. He does not appear to have spoken in Parliament. He did not stand in
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. Peach-Hungerford died on 3 June 1809.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peach Hungerford, John 1710s births 1809 deaths British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Leicestershire