Sir John Dashwood-King, 4th Baronet (1765 – 22 October 1849) was a British

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politician and country gentleman. The son of

Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet (4 August 1716 – 6 December 1793), was an English country gentleman. Born John Dashwood, he adopted the additional surname of King by the terms of his uncle Dr. John King's will. Early life The son of Sir F ...

and half-nephew of

Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, PC, FRS (December 1708 – 11 December 1781) was an English politician and rake, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club. Life and career Early life Dashwood was ...

, he shared little of their cultured and hedonistic ways and was a pious churchgoer. He was educated at the

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and

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. On 29 August 1789, he married Mary Anne Broadhead (d. 19 January 1844), the great-granddaughter of Theodore, Baron Brinckman; they had seven children: *

Sir George Dashwood, 5th Baronet Sir George Henry Dashwood, 5th Baronet (c. 1790 – 4 March 1862) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1832 and 1865. Dashwood was the eldest son of Sir John Dashwood-King, 4th Baronet, an ...

*Francis Dashwood (d. May 1817) *

Sir John Dashwood, 6th Baronet There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Dashwood family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Both creations are extant as of 2008. Dashwood baronetcy in Baronetage of England The Dashw ...

(1792–1863) *Captain Edwin Sandys Dashwood (d. 1846). An officer of the

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, he married Emily Hare in 1821, but became an

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and died of

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in Paris. He left a son: **

Sir Edwin Dashwood, 7th Baronet There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Dashwood family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Both creations are extant as of 2008. Dashwood baronetcy in Baronetage of England The Dashw ...

(1825–1882) *Rev. Henry Dashwood (d. 6 February 1846), married on 19 September 1826) Anne Leader and had issue. Vicar of West Wycombe in 1832, but lost his post due to indiscreet romantic entanglements. *Mary Dashwood, married in 1815 Augustus Fitzhardinge Berkeley, natural son of

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*Elizabeth Dashwood (d. 29 August 1846), married in 1821 Harrison Walke Sober, married on 28 April 1827 Anthony St. Leger and had issue. An unfortunate incident ensued in 1800, when he suspected his wife of being overly intimate with the

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and made her leave London for Bourton. In 1793, he inherited the baronetcy and

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, and stood unsuccessfully as the Parliamentary candidate for the borough of Wycombe. He was elected in 1796, holding the seat until 1831, playing an active role in local politics as well. An independent

, he was mobbed in Wycombe for his opposition to the

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in 1831, and left Parliament in 1831, preferring not to contest the election of 1832. Much given to country life, he established the

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, a pack of harriers, at his Bourton estate in

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and was also considered an excellent judge of horses. He disliked his country seat at West Wycombe as unsuitable for hunting and too expensive to maintain and attempted to sell it to the

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, but was unable to do so. He preferred to live in Halton House, near

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. Due to heavy investment in land in

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, he died burdened by poverty and crushing debt and was succeeded in the baronetcy by George Henry, who was Liberal Member for Buckinghamshire and for Wycombe until his death in 1862, when it passed briefly to George Henry's brother John Richard and then to the son of his other brother Edwin.

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