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Thomas Harley (24 August 1730 – 1 December 1804) was a British politician who sat in the

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for 41 years from 1761 to 1802. Thomas Harley Hall

Harley was the fourth son of

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and educated at

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. He became an alderman of London,

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in 1764 and

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in 1767. He served as Member of Parliament for

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from 1761 to 1774 and then for his native

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for most of the rest of his life. Berrington Hall - geograph

In 1775 he bought the Berrington estate near

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from the Cornewall family and built

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in 1778–1781 in place of an older house. It is now classified as a

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. He was elected

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for 1784–85 and appointed

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for April 1791 to August 1804. He died in December, 1804. He had married in 1752, Anne, the daughter of Edward Bangham, deputy Auditor of the Imprest. They had two sons, who both predeceased him, and five daughters. He gave Berrington to his daughter Anne when she married George Rodney (1753–1802), the son of Admiral

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. Another daughter Martha married George Drummond of Stanmore.

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* *''Burkes Peerage'' (1851 edition) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harley, Thomas 1730 births 1804 deaths Politicians from Herefordshire People educated at Westminster School, London Politics of Herefordshire Younger sons of earls Lord-lieutenants of Radnorshire Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1796–1800 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1801–1802 Sheriffs of the City of London 18th-century lord mayors of London

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Mayors of places in Shropshire

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