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DELAVAL, JOHN HUSSEY, BARON DELAVAL, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b. 17 Mar 1728; adm. Oct 1737; left 1745; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. 1746, but sent down Dec 1746; managed family’s Northumberland estates from 1755; assumed additional surname of Hussey before Delaval on inheriting Hussey family’s estate at Doddington, Lincs., from his mother in 1759; MP Berwick-upon-Tweed 1754-61, 18 Jan 1765-74, 1780-21 Aug 1786, also contesting Northumberland 1774; created baronet 1 Jul 1761; inherited Seaton Delaval estate on death of his elder brother Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv) in 1771; created Baron Delaval (I) 17 Oct 1783, as supporter of Fox-North coalition; changed sides and created Baron Delaval (GB) 21 Aug 1786, as supporter of Pitt administration; the subject of The Delavaliad (see The Rolliad, 1812 edn., 406-9); m. 1st, 2 Apr 1750 his cousin Susanna, widow of John Potter, Under Secretary for Ireland, and dau. of Ralph Robinson, Gateshead, co. Durham; m. 2nd, 5 Jan 1803 Susanna Elizabeth Knight; d. 17 May 1808. Buried St. Paul’s chapel, Westminster Abbey.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.