William Northmore (1690–1735), of Northmore House, Okehampton and Cleve, near Exeter, Devon, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the

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between 1713 and 1735. Okehampton town hall

Northmore, who was baptized on 1 July 1690, was the only son of William Northmore of Throwleigh, near Okehampton, and his wife Anne Hutton, daughter of Rev. William Hutton, sometime rector of Northlew, near Okehampton, and of St. Kew, Cornwall. He married, by a settlement dated 25 August 1711, his cousin Anne Northmore, daughter of

Thomas Northmore Thomas Northmore (1766–1851) was an English writer, inventor and geologist. Origins He was born at Cleve in the parish of St Thomas, Exeter, St Thomas, Exeter, in Devon, the eldest son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve, by his wife Elizabeth Osgood ...

of Cleve. In 1713 he inherited Cleve from his uncle and father-in-law, who held many of the Monck estates in mortgage and directed in his will that they be sold for the benefit of his nephew and his wife. Northmore was sometime Recorder of Okehampton and was returned as Tory

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for

Okehampton Okehampton ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is situated at the northern edge of Dartmoor, and had a population of 5,922 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards are based i ...

at the

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. He was returned again at the

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and voted against the Government in all recorded divisions. Northmore succeeded his father in 1716. His first wife Anne died in 1717 and he married Florence Chichester as his second wife in May 1720. Florence was a daughter of

Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet (c. 1662–1718), of Youlston Park, Devon was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1685 and 1718. Chichester was the second son of Sir John Chichester, 1s ...

. He did not stand at the

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. Florence died in 1726. Northmore resumed his seat at Okehampton at the

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, voting with the Opposition against the Hessians in 1730 and the

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in 1733. He was returned again at the

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. Northmore married Elizabeth Oxenham as his third wife on 11 September 1734. Elizabeth's father was William Oxenham of Oxenham, Devon. Northmore died on 17 March 1735 without children from any of his three marriages.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Northmore, William 1690 births 1735 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Okehampton British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1754–1761