Sir William Ashburnham, 5th Baronet
Sir William Ashburnham, 5th Baronet (5 March 1739 – 21 August 1823)[1] was a British politician.
Baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho on 29 March 1739, he was the eldest surviving son of the Rt Revd Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, Bishop of Chichester and his wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham.[2] Ashburnham was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[3] He succeeded his father as baronet in 1797.[4]
He entered the
High Sheriff of Sussex in 1803.[7]
In April 1766, Ashburnham married Alicia Woodgate, daughter of Reverend Francis Woodgate at
Broomham in Sussex.[8] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his sons William and John successively.[7]
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References
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 50.
- ^ "Ashburnham, William (ASBN758W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 295.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Hastings". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Sir Lewis Namier & John Brooke, ed. (1985). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Vol. II. Cambridge: Secker & Warburg. pp. 28–29.
- ^ a b c "ThePeerage – Sir William Ashburnham, 5th Bt". Retrieved 24 January 2009.
- ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1823). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: John Nichols and Son. p. 375.
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.