William Churchill (1627–1702), of Colliton House, Dorchester and Muston Manor,

Piddlehinton Piddlehinton is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley north of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 403. Piddlehinton formerly constituted a liberty containing only the paris ...

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, was an English politician. He married Grace Meller, the daughter of MP,

John Meller Sir John Meller (c.1588 – 1649/50)) of Bridehead House, Little Bredy , Dorset was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1628 and 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Meller was the eldest son of ...

. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for Dorchester in 1685.

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1627 births 1702 deaths English MPs 1685–1687 Members of the Parliament of England for Dorchester {{17thC-England-MP-stub