Sir Henry Slingsby, 5th Baronet (c. 1693 – 1763) of Scriven was a British landowner and politician who sat in the

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for 41 years between 1714 and 1763. Slingsby was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Slingsby, 4th Baronet and his wife Sarah Savile, daughter of John Savile of Methley, near Leeds. He matriculated at

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on 13 October 1710, aged 17. He succeeded his father in the

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in November 1726. In 1729, he married Mary Aislabie, daughter of

John Aislabie John Aislabie or Aslabie (; 4 December 167018 June 1742), of Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1721. He was of an independent mind, and did not stic ...

of Studley, Yorkshire who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1718 to 1721. Slingsby was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for

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on his family's interest at a by-election on 17 May 1714. He was defeated at the general election of 1715, but regained his seat in

1722 Events January–March * January 27 – Daniel Defoe's novel '' Moll Flanders'' is published anonymously in London. * February 10 – The Battle of Cape Lopez begins off of the coast of West Africa (and present-day Gabon), ...

. He was returned unopposed at the general elections o

1727 Events January–March * January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Britain ...

1734 Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America. * February 16 – ...

and

1741 Events January–March * January 13 ** Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township. ** Conventicle Act of 1741 is introduced in Denmark-Norway. *February 13 – Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain ...

and voted regularly with the Opposition. In 1743 he was put forward by a French emissary to be one of a council to be set up to advise the Young Pretender on his arrival in England following a Jacobite rising and French invasion. Although he was not appointed, he was one of the few people who were given military details of the proposed French landing. He continued to be returned for Knaresborough without opposition at the general elections of

1747 Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II ...

1754 Events January–March * January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word ''serendipity''. * February 22 – Expecting an attack by Portuguese-speaking militias in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plat ...

and

1761 Events January–March * January 14 – Third Battle of Panipat: In India, the armies of the Durrani Empire from Afghanistan, led by Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy, killing over 1 ...

. Slingsby died without issue on 18 January 1763. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brothers Thomas and then Savile Slingsby. Scriven Hall was built in about 1730. The house went out of the Slingsby family in the 19th century and was demolished after a fire in 1952. All that remains are the former stables and a coach house built in 1682 which were converted to residential use in about 1965 and form a

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Photograph of Scriven Hall
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slingsby, Sir Henry, 5th Baronet 1690s births 1763 deaths British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia