Sir William Geary, 2nd Baronet (23 September 1756 – 6 August 1825)
was an
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politician from
West Peckham
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in
Kent
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. He sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1796 to 1806 and from 1812 to 1818.
Sir William Geary
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He was the eldest surviving son of Admiral Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet (1709 – 7 February 1796) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the American War of Independence, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral ...
of Polesden, Surrey and was educated at Cheam School
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The school started in Cheam, Surre ...
and Magdalen College, Oxford
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(1773-6). He succeeded his father in 1796 after his elder brother Francis had been killed in the American War of Independence
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. He lived at Oxon Hoath
Oxon Hoath is a Grade II* listed Châteauesque-style former manor house with 73 acres (29½ hectares) of grounds at West Peckham, Kent. The spellings Oxenhoath, Oxen Hoath and Oxonhoath are common alternatives. The manor is a former royal deer ...
in West Peckham
West Peckham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The River Bourne, Kent, River Bourne flows through the extreme west of the parish, and formerly powered a paper mill (River Bourne, Kent#Hamptons ...
.
Geary was elected at the 1796 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Kent
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. He was re-elected in 1802
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they are at risk of destruction during the Ott ...
,
but was defeated at the 1806 general election. He did no contest the seat in 1807
Events
January–March
*January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.
*January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with b ...
, but was re-elected at the 1812 general election. He held the seat until 1818, when he was defeated at the general election
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.
He was a Director of Greenwich Hospital, London
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from 1801 until his death in 1825.
He had married Henrietta, the daughter and coheiress of Richard Nevill, MP of Furnace, co. Kildare and the widow of Edward Dering, with whom he had 3 sons, each born at Oxon Hoath, West Peckham:
• Sir William Richard Powlett Geary, 3rd Baronet (1810–1877)
• Francis Geary, 4th Baronet (1812–1895)
• Richard Nevill John Geary (1816–1824)
He was succeeded by his eldest son.
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1756 births
1825 deaths
People from West Peckham
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Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
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