Philip Wroughton (6 April 1846 – 7 June 1910) was an English landowner and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1876 to 1895. Wroughton was born at

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, the son of Philip Wroughton (1805-1862) of Woolley Park, Berkshire, and his wife Blanche Norris, daughter of John Norris of Hughenden House. His father was

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in 1857, and left him the manors of

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, Chaddleworth, and Woolley. Wroughton was educated at

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and

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Berkshire.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
/ref> Wroughton was elected

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(MP) for

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in 1876 and held the seat until it was divided under the

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. He was then elected MP for the division of Abingdon, and held the seat until 1895.

Death

Wroughton died at the age of 64 in

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in 1910.

Family

Wroughton married Evelyn Mary Neeld, daughter of

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on 4 February 1875. They lived at Woolley Park and had eight children, including Dorothy Florence Mary Wroughton, who married Rev. Herbert Lavallin Puxley of Llethr Llestri in

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, Mary St Quintin Wroughton (d. 9 December 1974), who married Ellis Robins (later Lord Robins) in 1912 and Philip Musgrave Neeld Wroughton who was killed in action on 19 April 1917 during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The estate passed to his son Philip, and then to his oldest daughter Dorothy and her husband, Herbert Lavallin Puxley. They held the Woolley Park estate until their elder son Michael Lavallin Puxley was 21 years old. He then inherited the estate and changed his surname to Wroughton in order to do so. He was the father of

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, appointed

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in 1995. Puxley/Wroughton was the uncle of

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, appointed

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for 2000–2001.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wroughton, Philip 1846 births 1910 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Berkshire People from Wycombe District People from Chaddleworth UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 English landowners People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Berkshire 19th-century British businesspeople