Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet (1736 – 28 November 1794) was an

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politician who sat in the

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for 32 years from 1762 to 1794. The eldest son of

Sir Robert Long, 6th Baronet Sir Robert Long, 6th Baronet (1705 – 10 February 1767) was an English politician. The only surviving son of Sir James Long, 5th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Greville, Long was baptised on 8 November 1705 at St Martin in the Fields, Westmi ...

and his wife Emma Child, he succeeded his father as the 7th Baronet on 10 February 1767, and inherited the family estates, including the manors of Draycot (Wiltshire) and Athelhampton (Dorset).

Career

He was a member of the

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, gaining the rank of captain in 1759 and major in 1769, and later formed the Draycot Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1784 he inherited the estates of

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, and Tylney Hall from his uncle

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, and Sir James took the additional name of Tylney. He became a generous benefactor of public and private charities, living a modest and unassuming lifestyle. He was

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for

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(1762–1780), for

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(1780–1788) and elected for

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in 1788, replacing the late Charles Penruddocke. He added a new south front, and east and west wings around the core of the medieval manor house of Draycot.Draycot House, by Geraldine Roberts
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Family

In 1775 Long married firstly, Harriot, fourth daughter of

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. She died on 12 November 1777 childless. He married in 1785 Lady Catherine Sydney Windsor, daughter of

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. He died at his home Draycot House on 29 November 1794. His wife, Lady Catherine, died in 1823. Their only son, also called James, was born two months before his father's death and became the 8th Baronet. A sickly child, he died on 14 September 1805 just short of his eleventh birthday, and the great estates of the Long, Child and Tylney families devolved chiefly onto the eldest of the 7th Baronet's three daughters,

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. The Baronetcy became extinct and Catherine's marriage to spendthrift, high-stakes gambler and adulterous

William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (22 June 1788 – 1 July 1857) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated lifestyle. Ancestry One of his great-grandfathers was Henry Colley (d.1700) (or Cowley) of Castle ...

saw the destruction of

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, Wanstead, Essex (now London), but also produced their son who settled the remaining estates on his first cousin the 2nd Earl Cowley.

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