Sir John Mordaunt, 7th Baronet (baptised 9 May 1734 – 18 November 1806) was an English politician who represented the constituency of

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. Mordaunt was born the son of

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 ...

and educated at

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. He succeeded his father as 7th Baronet in 1778. Mordaunt was a captain in the Warwickshire militia from 1759 to 1763 and a

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from 1763 to 1793. He was elected unopposed as the MP for

from 1793 to 1802. Mordaunt died in 1806. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter and coheiress of Thomas Prowse of Compton Bishop, Somerset, with whom he had 2 sons and 6 daughters. Mordaunt was succeeded by his son

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, who also became MP for Warwickshire in 1804.

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