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Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baronet (21 September 1732 – 14 July 1807) was a British Member of Parliament.


Early life

Born Richard Johnstone he was the son of Colonel John Johnstone (d. 1741), second son of
Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet of Sciennes and Westerhall was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1698 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons between 1707 and 1722. Early life Johnstone was th ...
, of Westerhall. His mother was Charlotte, daughter of John van den Bempde of Hackness Hall in
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, near
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.


Career

Vanden-Bampde-Johnstone was elected to the
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for Weymouth in 1790, a seat he held until 1796. On 6 July 1795 he was created a Baronet, of Hackness Hall in the North Riding of the County of York.


Personal life

In November 1756, he married Catherine Agnew, a daughter of James Agnew. After the death of his first wife in 1790, he married, secondly, Margaret Scott, daughter of John Scott, on 26 February 1795. Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''
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, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1109. * Margaret Anne Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone (d. 1819), who married George Johnstone, son of Charles John Johnstone. *
Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet (28 August 1799 – 24 February 1869) was a British Member of Parliament. Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone was the son of Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baronet. He succeeded as second Baronet in ...
(1799–1869), who married Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon, daughter of Most Rev. and Rt. Hon.
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and Lady Anne Leveson-Gower (a daughter of
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), in 1825. * Reverend Charles Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone (1800–1882), the Canon of York who married Amelia Hawksworth, daughter of Reverend Richard Hawksworth and Isabella Pilkington, in 1827. In 1793 he assumed by Act of Parliament his maternal grandfather's surname of Vanden-BempdeDeed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1793 (33 Geo. 3). c. 1
/ref> but in 1795 he was authorised by Royal licence to resume the name of Johnstone in addition to those of Vanden-Bempde. He died in July 1807, aged 74, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son
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. His grandson Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 3rd Baronet, was raised to the peerage as
Baron Derwent Baron Derwent, of Hackness in the North Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 October 1881 for the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Scarborough, Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-J ...
in 1881.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.


See also

* Johnstone Baronets of Westerhall


References


External links

*
www.thepeerage.com
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