Earsham Hall, Earsham (geograph 3396891)

William Windham (c. 1706 – 1789) was a British landowner and politician. The eldest son of

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Earsham Earsham is a small village in Norfolk, England. Its postal town is the nearby Bungay, Suffolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 907 in 357 households at the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, the population falling to 882 at th ...

(died 1730) and Anne Tyrrell, he came of an old

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family. He is sometimes called William Windham Ashe, a misnomer according to the ''History of Parliament''. On his father's death he inherited

Earsham Hall Earsham House is a Georgian country house near the village of Earsham, Norfolk. It is a Grade II* listed building. The house is built in three storeys of red brick with a parapet and a slate hipped roof. It has a symmetrical 7-bay frontage, the ...

in Earsham, Norfolk. He served as sub-governor to Duke of Cumberland in 1731 and was afterwards Comptroller of the Duke's Household till the Duke's death in 1765. He was elected a

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in 1749 although his fellowship lapsed after only two years. He entered Parliament for the nearby borough of

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in 1747, for which he sat until 1761. He briefly returned to Parliament for

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from 1766 to 1768. Upon his death in 1789, Earsham Hall went to his nephew, Joseph Wyndham-Bower. In April 1734, he had married Mary, Dowager Countess of Deloraine (d. 1744), daughter of Capt. Charles Howard and granddaughter of Col. Philip Howard, but the two had no children.

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Wyndham Genealogy
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