Wadham Penruddock Wyndham (16 October 1773 – 23 October 1843) was a British Member of Parliament. The eldest surviving son of

Henry Penruddocke Wyndham Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736–1819) MP JP FSA FRS, was a British Whig Member of Parliament, topographer and author. Background Wyndham was born on 4 June 1736, the eldest surviving son of Henry Wyndham of St Edmund's College, Sal ...

of St Edmund's College, Salisbury, he was educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School,

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, from 1787 to 1789 and at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

in 1793. He was a cornet in the

Wiltshire Yeomanry The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. It was disbanded as an independent Territorial Army unit in 1967, a time when the strength of the Territorial ...

in 1794, a captain in the

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in 1796, and major in 1805. Wyndham represented

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in Parliament from

1818 Events January–March * January 1 ** Battle of Koregaon: Troops of the British East India Company score a decisive victory over the Maratha Empire. ** Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' is published anonymously in London. * January 2 – ...

until unseated on 6 May 1833, then again from

1835 Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. ...

until his death in 1843 aged 70. He was Mayor of Wilton from 1825 to 1826. Wadham Wyndham succeeded his father in 1819. On 1 March 1821 he was married to Anne Eliza, daughter of

Sir John Slade, 1st Baronet General Sir John "Black Jack" Slade, 1st Baronet, (31 December 1762 – 13 August 1859) served as a general officer in the British Army during the Peninsular War. Slade was praised in official reports, including by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke ...

, but they had no children. He was succeeded by his sister Caroline Frances, wife of John Campbell of Dunoon; their son John Henry Wyndham-Campbell was also an MP for Salisbury.

References

* R. G. Thorne
WYNDHAM, Wadham (1773-1843), of Salisbury, Wilts.
in ''

The History of Parliament The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in w ...

: the House of Commons 1790-1820'', 1986. Online version accessed 26 May 2012. * Stephen Farrell
WYNDHAM, Wadham (1773-1843), of St. Edmund's College, Salisbury, Wilts.
in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832'', 2009. Online version accessed 26 May 2012. 1773 births 1843 deaths UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 People educated at Eton College People educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers {{England-UK-MP-stub