Joshua Vanneck, 2nd Baron Huntingfield (12 August 1778 – 10 August 1844) of
Heveningham Hall
Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building in Heveningham, Suffolk. The first house on the site was built for the politician and regicide William Heveningham in 1658. The present house, dating from 1778 to 1780, was designed by Sir Robert Ta ...
in Suffolk, was a British peer and
Member of Parliament
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(MP).
Huntingfield was the son of
Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baron Huntingfield
Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baron Huntingfield (31 December 1745 – 15 August 1816), known as Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd Baronet, from 1791 to 1796, was a British merchant and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament.
Huntingfield was t ...
, and Maria Thompson. His paternal grandfather
Sir Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baronet
Sir Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baronet (1702 – 6 March 1777) was a British-Dutch merchant.
Venneck was born in The Hague, the son of Cornelius Van Neck. He emigrated to Britain in 1722 and became a successful London merchant. This enabled him to pur ...
, had emigrated from
the Netherlands
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in 1722 and had become a prominent
London
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merchant. In 1816 Huntingfield succeeded his father both as second Baron Huntingfield and as
Tory
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Member of Parliament for
Dunwich
Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast.
In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was ...
, a seat he held until 1819. The barony of Huntingfield was an
Irish peerage
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and did not entitle him to a seat in the
House of Lords
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.
Lord Huntingfield married, firstly, Frances Catherine Arcedeckne, daughter of
Chalenor Arcedeckne, in 1810. She died in 1815 and in 1817 he married, secondly, Lucy Anne Blois, daughter of
Sir Charles Blois, 6th Baronet
The Blois Baronetcy, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1686 for Charles Blois. He represented Ipswich and Dunwich in the House of Commons. The sevent ...
. He died in August 1844, aged 65, and was succeeded in his titles and estates by his son from his second marriage, Charles. Lady Huntingfield died in 1889.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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1778 births
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Joshua
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. ' Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...