Frederick West (1767 – 22 March 1852) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1801 to 1806.

Early life

West was the third son of Mary (

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Wynyard), Countess De La Warr, and

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. His elder brothers were William West, 3rd Earl De La Warr, a Lt.-Col. in the

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and John West, 4th Earl De La Warr. He also had two sisters, Lady Georgiana West (the wife of Edward Pery Buckley and mother of

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, MP for

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), and Lady Matilda West (the wife of Gen. Henry Wynyard, Commander-in-Chief, Scotland). His paternal grandparents were

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(only son of John West, 6th Baron De La Warr) and the former Lady Charlotte McCarthy (only daughter of Donough MacCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty and Lady Elizabeth Spencer, second daughter of

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. His maternal grandparents were Lieutenant-General John Wynyard and the former and Catherine Allestrec. He was educated at

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in 1774.''The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fodog and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd (1881–1887)'', Lloyd, Jacob Youde William, vol. 4 p. 52

Career

In 1801 he served as a councilman in

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and in the same year was elected Member of Parliament for Denbigh Boroughs. While in Parliament, West gave a silent support to administration; he was initially listed as doubtful, then as a friend of William Pitt's government in 1804 and 1805, opposing Samuel Whitbread's

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on 8 April 1805. In 1806, he was ousted from Parliament by his brother-in-law, Robert Myddelton Biddulph, who had married his wife's elder sister. Biddulph and West "did not see eye to eye, and although West did not himself seek to return to Parliament he sponsored the successful candidature of Viscount Kirkwall against Biddulph in 1812, and in 1820 put up his son, who later represented the boroughs." He was a captain in the Berkshire Volunteers in 1803 and in the Berkshire militia in 1808. In the autumn of 1804, King

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visited him at Culham Court. Between 1810 and 1815, he was a

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. In 1813, he applied to

(who felt "a sincere regard" for him, his father having been "one of her earliest and most faithful servants") for "an Irish barony of the title of Myddelton chiefly with a view to give weight to that interest in the county of Denbigh which has been devoted to the support of his Majesty's government", although nothing came of it. From 1821 to 1822 he was Sheriff of Berkshire.

Personal life

West married twice and inherited the properties of both his fathers-in-law. On 17 April 1792, West was married to Charlotte Mitchell at

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(now

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) in

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. She was a daughter of Richard Mitchell of Culham Court. Before her death on 13 June 1795, they were the parents of: * Charlotte Louisa West (d. 1869). On 31 May 1798, he married, secondly, to Maria Myddelton, a daughter of Richard Myddleton of

Chirk Castle Chirk Castle () is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, from Chirk railway station, now owned and run by the National Trust. History The castle was built in 1295 by Roger Mortimer de Chirk, uncle of Roge ...

and the sister-in-law, and heiress, of Robert Myddelton Biddulph. They were the parents of: * Frederick Richard West (1799–1862), an MP in

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthi ...

who married Lady Georgiana Stanhope, a daughter of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Lady Henrietta Thynne (third daughter of

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), in 1820. After her death, he married, secondly, Theresa Whitby, daughter of Capt. John Whitby and Mary Anne Symonds. His second wife died on 23 October 1843. West died on 22 March 1852.

Descendants

Through his son Frederick, he was a grandfather of Georgiana Theresa Ella Cornwallis-West (d. 1915), the wife of Warren William Richard Peacocke, and William Cornwallis-West (1835–1917), also an MP in

who married Mary Adelaide Virginia Eupatoria FitzPatrick (daughter of Rev. Frederick Fitzpatrick and Lady Olivia Taylour, a daughter of Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort).

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:West, Frederick 1767 births 1852 deaths People from Chirk People educated at Harrow School UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 High sheriffs of Berkshire

Frederick Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Given name Nobility = Anhalt-Harzgerode = * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) = Austria = * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria fro ...

Myddelton family People from Wargrave People from Remenham Younger sons of earls Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies