Wardell George Westby (died 1756), of

Ravenfield Ravenfield is a small village and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England. It is located in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, east of the town of Rotherham. The older part is a former farming village and over recent years has become a ...

, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1727 to 1731. Westby was the eldest son of Thomas Westby, MP of Ravenfield and his first wife Margaret Wardell, daughter of George (Matthew?) Wardell of Holderness, Yorkshire. He married Charlotte Darcy, daughter of Hon. John Darcy on 30 May 1723, on which occasion his father gave up to him the Ravenfield estate, which had been in the family since the early seventeenth century. At the

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Westby was returned as

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for Malton on the Wentworth Woodhouse interest. He voted with the Government and in 1731 he was appointed Commissioner of customs. He then vacated his seat, retaining the customs post for the rest of his life. He was also appointed a director of the

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in 1731. Westby succeeded his father in. 1747 but he was forced to sell Ravenfield in 1748 on account of his wife's extravagance. In 1749 he also sold a house at 5 Whitehall Yard, London. He died on 9 December 1756, leaving one daughter who married a cousin of the Earl of Egmont in 1750. Westby's widow died in Great Marlborough Street on 10 February 1760, and of his daughter it was said ‘Let the remainer of her unhappy story be left in oblivion’.

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Grosvenor Prints Ravenfield near Doncaster in York Shire, the Seat of Wardell George Westby Esq.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Westby, Wardell George 1756 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734