Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet, (''ca''. 1695 – 6 April 1743) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1722 to 1743. Newton was the only son of Sir John Newton, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Susanna Warton, daughter of Michael Warton of Beverley, and sister of Sir Michael Warton. The Newton family fortune derived originally from the legacy of a

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moneylender. Newton also inherited a significant fortune from his maternal uncle, Sir Michael Warton, whom he succeeded as Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverly at the

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. He was one of the wealthy commoners who were made knights of the new

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by Sir

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in 1725, but in Parliament Newton consistently voted against Walpole's government. Newton was returned as MP for

at the

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and was returned again in

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and

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. Newton lived at Culverthorpe Hall,

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. He was chief mourner at the 1727 funeral, held at

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, of the eminent scientist Sir

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, who was Sir Michael's third cousin once removed. He also cultivated horse breeding and racing.''Thoroughbred Bloodlines'' Sir Michael Newton and his family
/ref> In 1730 he married Margaret, Countess of Coningsby, daughter of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby. The couple had a son and daughter, but the son died in infancy and after Sir Michael's death on 25 March 1743, the baronetcy became extinct.

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