William Moffat (MP)

For other people named William Moffat, see William Moffat (disambiguation).

William Moffat (7 March 1737 – 12 January 1822)[1] was an English banker, merchant and politician.

He was involved in several banking partnerships in London, and was also a merchant. By 1790 he lived in Bloomsbury, and in 1799 he bought the Painshill estate in Surrey, but sold it a few years later and lived in Wimbledon.[2]

He was elected at the 1802 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Winchelsea in Sussex, but was not re-elected in 1806.[2]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
  2. 1 2 Brown, Richard; Collinge, J. M. (1986). R. Thorne, ed. "MOFFAT, William (1737-1822), of Painshill and Wimbledon, Surr.". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820,. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Devaynes
William Currie
Member of Parliament for Winchelsea
1802 1806
With: Robert Ladbroke
Succeeded by
Calverley Bewicke
Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, Bt


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