John Kenrick (MP)
John Kenrick (1735 – 18 September 1799) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1780 to 1790.[1]
He was educated at
He was Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance between 1780 and 1783.[2]
He was elected at the
rotten borough of Bletchingley in Surrey. The previous year, he had purchased the succession rights to the manor and borough from his cousin Sir Robert Clayton, Bt, and Clayton again returned him for Bletchingley in 1784. However, the two men fell out when Clayton tried unsuccessfully to revoke the sale, and although Kenrick won the court case, Clayton did not return him to Parliament in 1790.[2]
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
- ^ a b c Drummond, Mary M. (1964). L. Namier; J. Brooke (eds.). "KENRICK, John (1735-99), of Bletchingley, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 16 June 2014.