Sir Peter Mews (29 August 1672 – 19 March 1726), of Hinton Admiral, was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1710 to 1726. Mews was the son of Colonel John Mews and his wife Sarah Mellish. He matriculated at

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and

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. His father was a supporter of

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and a colonel in the London Militia, but Peter Mews and his uncle were fervent

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. Mews was appointed Chancellor of Winchester Diocese in 1698 by his uncle (Bishop

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), a post he held until his death in March 1726. He bought the manors of

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and Westover from the

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in 1708, having previously settled in the area with his purchase of the manor of

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, where he built a mansion in 1720. Mews was returned as

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for

at the 1710 general election. He was returned again in 1713,

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and 1722. He was knighted on 13 July 1712. Mews died on 19 March 1726. He married, at

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in 1719, Lydia Gervis (1676–1751), daughter and heiress of George Gervis of Islington, whose several sisters' descendants subsequently inherited the estates, Mews having died without issue. Hinton Admiral passed to his nephew

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, whose descendants still occupy the house.

References

*Hampshire County Record Office, "Rose estate, Christchurch" M/30* Herbert Druitt ''A Christchurch Miscellany'' *Registers of Westminster Abbey * Joseph Foster ''Alumni Oxonienses'' *''History of Parliament – The Commons 1690-1715'' (Cambridge University Press) *Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807

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