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but was defeated. However his opponent died within a year and Watson-Wentworth was returned unopposed for Higham Ferrers at a by-election on 22 November 1703. He acquired the electoral interest at Higham Ferrers and was returned unopposed at the general elections of 1705,
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as well as Higham Ferrers and decided to sit for Malton. Now being considered whimsical or a Whig that voted with the Tories he supported the Whigs against the expulsion of Richard Steele and in other divisions. After the
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at a by-election on 21 March 1701. He was only returned as a stop-gap and at the general election later that year he sought a seat elsewhere but in the end decided not to stand. At the 1702 general election, he stood at
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in Yorkshire, with others in Northamptonshire and Ireland. This was in preference to the Earl's first cousin once-removed
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As is publicly recorded on the monument to William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford in York Minster
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politician who in 1725 rebuilt Wentworth Woodhouse as the palatial building surviving today.
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recording his heir as Thomas Watson, with an obligation to adopt the surname "Wentworth"
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where his elaborate monument with standing marble effigy survives. It was sculpted by
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By licence dated 18 July 1689 he married Alice Proby, a daughter and heiress of
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Watson-Wentworth died at Harrowden on 6 October 1723 and was buried in
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
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Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.183
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Memorial to Thomas Watson-Wentworth in the north choir aisle of
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In 1695 Watson inherited the fortune of his maternal uncle
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Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, 3rd Baron Rockingham
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he was returned unopposed again for Higham Ferrers.
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He displays her arms as an inescutcheon of pretence
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Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham
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Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham
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Thomas Watson Wentworth
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

York Minster
Wentworth Woodhouse
House of Commons
Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford
Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, 3rd Baron Rockingham
Earl of Rockingham
Christ Church, Oxford
Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham
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Privy Council of Ireland
Whig

William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford
York Minster
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford
Wentworth Woodhouse
Thomas Wentworth
Earl of Strafford
Member of Parliament
Bossiney
Higham Ferrers
1708
1710
Henry Sacheverell

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