Thomas Wyndham (c.1693–1777), of
Tale
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,
Devon
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, was an English Whig politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1732 to 1741.
Biography
Wyndham was the only son of Edmund Wyndham of Tale and his wife Penelope Dodington, daughter of John Dodington of
Dodington,
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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. He succeeded his father in 1723.
Wyndham was returned unopposed as
Member of Parliament
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for
Poole
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on the government interest at a by-election on 26 April 1732. He was probably put forward through the influence of his cousin,
George Bubb Dodington
George Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe (1691 – 28 July 1762) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1761.
Christened George Bubb, he was the eldest son of Jeremiah Bubb of Foy, Herefordshire and his wife ...
, who was a
Lord of the Treasury
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. He was returned unopposed again for Poole at the
1734 British general election
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. He voted for the Administration in all recorded divisions until 1740, when Dodington went into opposition. He did not stand in
1741
Events
January–March
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Dodington owned the villa of La Trappe in ]Hammersmith
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where Wyndham was one of his constant companions, known as the monks.[
Wyndham died unmarried at Hammersmith on 19 September 1777, the last of the Wyndham line of Tale.][ He was described as a "misanthrope".][
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References
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1690s births
1777 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
People from East Devon District