Sir John Mordaunt, 5th Baronet (by 1649 – 6 September 1721) of Walton d'Eiville was an English Tory politician who sat in the

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and

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from 1698 to 1715. Mordaunt was the second son of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Baronet and his wife Catherine Tollemache, daughter of

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, of Helmingham, Suffolk. He succeeded his elder brother to the

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on 24 April 1665 and inherited the Massingham Estate at Little Massingham, Norfolk. Mordaunt was one of Warwickshire's two deputy-lieutenants and following the

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was involved in organising arms searches in Warwickshire's main towns in 1683. He married by licence dated 13 June 1678, aged 21, Anne Risley, daughter of William Risley of the Friary, Bedford. She died in 1692 and he married as his second wife, by licence dated 8 June 1695, Penelope Warburton, the daughter of Sir George Warburton, 3rd Baronet, of Arley, Cheshire. Mordaunt was returned as Member of Parliament for

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at the

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. He held the seat until 1715. Mordaunt died at Kensington on 6 September 1721. He left two sons and two surviving daughters by his second wife, Penelope, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet (c. 1697 – 11 March 1778), of Walton d'Eiville in Warwickshire, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 40 years from 1734 to 1774. Mordaunt was the eldest son of Sir ...

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