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WROTTESLEY, JOHN, 1st BARON WROTTESLEY, eldest son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv); b. 25 Oct 1771; adm. 31 Jan 1782; expelled as one of the ringleaders in the rebellion up School in Dr. Smith’s time (two letters in the Wrottesley MSS giving an account of the rebellion, calendared HMC Report, ii, 48, were destroyed in a fire at Wrottesley Hall 16 Dec 1897); succ. father as 9th baronet 23 Apr 1787; Ensign, 35th Foot 24 Sep 1787; Lieut., 19th Foot 2 Jun 1790; 29th Foot 25 Jun 1790; Capt., 16th Light Dragoons 26 Feb 1793; Maj., 32nd Foot 28 Apr 1794; retd. Aug 1795; served in Flanders 1793-5; a partner in a banking firm at Wolverhampton, Staffs., c. 1816-34; MP Lichfield 2 Mar 1799-1806, Staffordshire 23 Jul 1823-32, South Staffordshire 1832-7; created Baron Wrottesley 11 Jul 1838; initially a supporter of Pitt, but took Whig whip in House of Commons and House of Lords from 1823 onwards; FSA (by 1831); m. 1st, 23 Jun 1795 Lady Caroline Bennet, eldest dau. of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville; m. 2nd, 19 May 1819 Julia, widow of Capt. Hon. John Astley Bennet, Royal Navy, and dau. of John Conyers (qv); d. 16 Mar 1841. DNB.
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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.