Sir George Henry Dashwood, 5th Baronet (c. 1790 – 4 March 1862) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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in two periods between 1832 and 1865. Dashwood was the eldest son of

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, and his wife Mary Ann Broadhead.Cokayne, George Edward (1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . pp. 3–4. He was educated at

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and the

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. Unlike his father, a

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who resisted the

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, George was a progressive Whig and

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, making their relationship somewhat cool. Sir John much preferred his estate at

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to that at

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, so George took up residence in the latter shortly after marrying his mother's niece, Elizabeth Broadhead (d. 24 May 1889), daughter of

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, on 17 March 1823. Sir John left politics in 1831, in the face of popular agitation for electoral Reform, and George stood for Parliament the following year, being returned as

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for

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. He held that seat until 1835. In 1837, he was returned for the borough of Wycombe, formerly his father's seat, and remained one of its Members of Parliament until his death in 1865. Dashwood succeeded his father in the

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in 1849. He liquidated his grandfather's estates in Lincolnshire and Wales, in 1851, and used the money so raised to overhaul the estate at West Wycombe. He also sold off the contents of Halton House in 1849, and the estate itself in 1853. Elizabeth Brinckman Massot

Dashwood died at West Wycombe Park aged 71. With no issue, he was succeeded by his brother John, leaving his wife Elizabeth as life tenant of West Wycombe. She subsequently built St Paul's Church at West Wycombe.

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