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Thomas Wyndham (of Clearwell Park)

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Walpole is said to have offered him a commissionership of customs to get him out of the House of Commons but when he found it was in Scotland he refused to accept. Thereafter he voted against the Government in all recorded occasions and became a frequent opposition speaker. He served on an inquiry
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on 17 January 1706 and was called to the bar in 1716. He married his cousin Jane Wyndham daughter of William Wyndham of Dunraven Castle Glamorgan. She died in 1723 and he was left with considerable estates in Gloucestershire and Glamorgan. In 1727, he built Clearwell Court to the designs of Roger
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For the rest of his life Wyndham looked after his estates.. These were augmented when he succeeded his brother to the family estate in Cromer in 1745. He died on 12 December 1752. He had two sons by his first wife, and three sons by his second wife. His eldest son by his second wife,
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was guilty of fraud and breach of trust. He also spoke on bills concerning molasses, the qualification of Members, the sinking fund, and the excise. In the last session he spoke against the army and for a place bill. He did not stand again in
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In his first Parliament he supported the Government, seconding a motion to examine one of the Atterbury conspirators in the Tower in 1723, and seconding the Address in 1726, when he was described as a ‘favourite of
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Wyndham was the second son of Francis Wyndham of Cromer, Norfolk and his wife Sarah Darell, daughter of Sir Thomas Darell. He was educated at
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Morris, and replaced an older house which occupied the same site. He made a second marriage to Anne Edwin, daughter of
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in 1705. He became a fellow in 1707, was awarded BA in 1709 and was awarded MA in 1712. He was admitted at
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which was probably with the support of Walpole. However, when Walpole did not make him a
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into the custody of the serjeant at arms. In 1733 he supported a motion that
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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at a by-election on 17 March 1721 and was returned again at the
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wrote that he always spoke with esteem of Sir Robert Walpole.
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In 1716, Wyndham was appointed secretary to the chancellor of
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Index

Clearwell Court
Dunraven Castle
Cromer
House of Commons

Gloucestershire
Clearwell Castle
Eton College
King's College, Cambridge
Lincoln's Inn
Samuel Edwin
Duchy of Lancaster
Member of Parliament
Truro
1722 general election
Walpole
1727 general election
Dunwich
Lord of the Admiralty
Charitable Corporation
Sir Archibald Grant
Sir Robert Sutton
1734
Horace Walpole
Charles
"Windham, Thomas (WNDN703T)"
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