John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (4 October 1771 – 16 March 1841), known as Sir John Wrottesley, 9th Baronet, from 1787 to 1838, was a British soldier and
Member of Parliament.
Wrottesley was the son of
Sir John Wrottesley, 8th Baronet. He served in the
British Army
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and achieved the rank of
major general. He was also appointed as
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the
Western Regiment of Staffordshire Local Militia in 1809.
Wrottesley was also a Member of Parliament for
Lichfield
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from 1799 to 1806, for
Staffordshire
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from 1823 to 1832, and for
Staffordshire South from 1832 to 1837. On 11 July 1838, he was ennobled as Baron Wrottesley, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford.
Lord Wrottesley married firstly Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of
Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, in 1795. After his first wife's death in 1818, he married secondly Julia Conyers, daughter of John Conyers of
Copped Hall
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,
Essex
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, in 1819. Julia was the widow of Captain John Astley Bennet RN, the brother of Wrottesley's first wife. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Wrottesley died in March 1841, aged 69, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son
John Wrottesley.
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1771 births
1841 deaths
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