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MYTTON, JOHN, only son of John Mytton (adm. 1777, qv); b. 30 Oct 1796; adm. 5 Jun 1807; left 1811; went to Harrow Sch.; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jan 1816; Cornet, 7th Hussars 30 May 1816-7; of Halston, Shropshire; Master of the Foxhounds which hunted the Albrighton country 1817-21; a racehorse owner 1817-30, keeping a large stud but never breeding a good horse; MP Shrewsbury 25 May 1819-20; High Sheriff, Merioneth 1821, Shropshire 1823; a famous sportsman of great physical strength and foolhardy courage; also a riotous spendthrift with a taste for practical jokes, and became an alcoholic; his average allowance of port is said to have been four to six bottles; squandered his large fortune, and in 1821 was forced to take refuge from his creditors at Calais; m. 1st, 21 May 1818 Harriet Emma, eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart., MP; m. 2nd, 29 Oct 1821 Caroline Mallett, sixth dau. of Thomas Giffard, Chillington, Staffs.; d. of delirium tremens in the King’s Bench Prison 29 Mar 1834. 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.