Sprig Manesty (died 1728), of Woodford, Essex, was a British politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1727 to 1728.
Manesty was the eldest son of Samuel Manesty of Gray's Inn, and his wife Anna.
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/ref> He married Agnes Crawley, daughter of Andrew Crawley of Clapham on 25 April 1703. She died in 1718 and was buried on 19 March1718. He married as his second wife Anne Miller.1727 British general election
The 1727 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was trigg ...
he was brought into Parliament as Member of Parliament
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for Queenborough
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Queenborough is south of Sheerness. It grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it joins the River M ...
on the government interest and was appointed a Commissioner of Victualling. He also became an assistant, of the Royal African Company
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in 1727.
Manesty died on 29 September 1728, and was buried at Clapham in the vault of his father-in-law. His children by his first marriage predeceased him, but he had two sons and a daughter by his second marriage
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1728 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1727–1734