Reynolds Calthorpe (6 November 1689 – 10 April 1714) briefly served as a Member of Parliament in the

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from 1713 to 1714.

Biography

Calthorpe was the eldest son of

Reynolds Calthorpe Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham in Hampshire (12 August 1655 in Ampton – 1719) was a Whig Member of Parliament for Hindon. He was the third and youngest son of Sir James Calthorpe (died 1658) and Dorothy Reynolds, second daughter of Sir Jam ...

of Elvetham, and the only son by his first wife Priscilla, daughter of Sir Robert Reynolds.D. W. Hayton
CALTHORPE, Reynolds I (1655-1720), of Elvetham, Hants.
in ''The History of Parliament''. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, Calthorpe was elected to Parliament for the corrupt borough of Hindon on 29 August 1713, during the general election of that year. Calthorpe and the other Whig candidate, Richard Lockwood, defeated the

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Richard Jones and Edmund Lambert.D. W. Hayton
Hindon
in ''The History of Parliament''. In Parliament Calthorpe voted against the expulsion of

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on 18 March 1714. Jones had also contested

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, for which he took his seat, but Lambert

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ed against the election result, alleging bribery. However, Calthorpe's unexpected death from

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on 10 April 1714 caused the petition to lapse, and the seat remained vacant until the general election the next year, when his father was re-elected. Calthorpe was buried at Elvetham.D. W. Hayton
CALTHORPE, Reynolds II (1689-1714), of Elvetham, Hants.
in ''The History of Parliament''.

References

D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks and S. Handley eds, ''

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: the House of Commons 1690-1715'' (2002). {{DEFAULTSORT:Calthorpe, Reynolds 1689 births 1714 deaths British MPs 1713–1715 Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies People educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds Deaths from smallpox in England People from Hart District