Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet (6 April 1637 – 30 March 1699) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1661 to 1699. Apley Hall restoration 2001

Whitmore was the eldest son of

Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet (28 November 1612 – 1653) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England between 1640 and 1644. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War. Biography Whitmore was the son ...

of Apley Hall, Shropshire and his wife Elizabeth Acton, daughter of Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet (1570-1651). He succeeded in 1653 to the

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on the death of his father, who had been MP for

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.J. Burke and J.B. Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England'' (Scott Webster and Geary, London 1837)
p. 563
(Google). In 1660, Whitmore was elected Member of Parliament for the county of

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and then for the borough of

from the

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called in 1661, until his death in 1699.M.W. Helms/J.S. Crossette, 'Whitmore, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1637-99), of Apley Park, Salop.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690'' (from Boydell and Brewer 1983)
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Sir William married Mary Harvey, daughter of Elias Harvey of London. He died aged 61 without issue and the baronetcy became extinct. Apley Hall passed to his cousin

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