Sir Nathaniel Mead (died 1760), of Goosehays, near

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, was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Mead was the son of William Mead of Goosehays. He was admitted at

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in 1700 and was called to the bar in 1704. His first wife's identity is unrecorded, but his second wife was Martha Scawen, daughter of Sir Thomas Scawen. He became Serjeant-at-law in January 1715 and was knighted on 17 February 1715. By this time he was also under-steward of Havering-atte-Bower. Mead stood unsuccessfully for

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at the

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. He was elected

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(MP) for Aylesbury at the

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. He did not stand in

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. Mead died on 15 April 1760. He had two sons from his first marriage and a son and a daughter from the second.

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