Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
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Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain | |
In office 22 January 1770 – 31 October 1780 | |
Preceded by | John Cust |
Succeeded by | Charles Wolfran Cornwall |
Solicitor General for England and Wales | |
In office 1762–1763 | |
Preceded by | Charles Yorke |
Succeeded by | William de Grey |
Personal details | |
Spouse | Grace Chapple |
Children | 5 |
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley,
Life and career
Norton was the eldest son of Thomas Norton of
With his father he ordered the building in the mid-1700s of Grantley Hall, near Ripon in North Yorkshire.
In 1756, Norton was elected
In 1769, as MP for
The king did not forget these plain words, and after the general election of 1780, the prime minister,
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776.[5]
Death
He died in 1789 at his London home in Lincoln's Inn Fields and was buried at Wonersh, Surrey. In 1741 he had married Grace, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Chapple, Justice of the King's Bench, 1737–1745. They had 5 sons and 2 daughters. He was succeeded as Baron Grantley by his eldest son William (1742–1822).
Family
Grantley married Grace Chapple, daughter and heir of Sir William Chapple, Justice of the King's bench, on 21 May 1741. They had four sons and a daughter:
- William Norton, 2nd Baron Grantley (1742–1822)
- Hon. FRSE (1744–1820); father of Hon. Charles Francis Norton and Hon. George Chapple Norton
- Hon. Chapple Norton (1746–1818)
- Hon. Edward Norton (1750–1786)
- Hon. Grace Norton (1752–1813), married John Wallop, 3rd Earl of Portsmouth
Arms
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See also
References
- ^ "Norton, Fletcher (NRTN734F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b c "NORTON, Fletcher (1716–89), of Grantley, Yorks. and Wonersh, Surr". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "No. 12282". The London Gazette. 30 March 1782. p. 1.
- ^ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 10 December 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Grantley, Baron (GB, 1782)".
- Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III., edited by G. F. R. Barker (1894);
- Sir N. W. Wraxall, Historical and Posthumous Memoirs, edited by H. B. Wheatley (1884);
- J. A. Manning, Lives of the Speakers (1850);
- Hammond Innes, The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary, (N.Y.: Knopf, 1978).
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Grantley, Fletcher Norton". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 360. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the