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Barnaby Backwell

Barnaby Backwell

18th-century English politician

Barnaby Backwell (died 3 October 1754) was the member of Parliament for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, in 1754.

Barnaby Backwell's house (left) at Twickenham from the River Thames, 1753.[1] Dr. William Battie's house on the right.[2]

Early life

Barnaby Backwell was the second but first surviving son of Tyringham Backwell of Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Child, Lord Mayor of London.[3] He was the grandson of the financier Edward Backwell.

Career

Backwell was a partner in the bank of Samuel and Francis Child,[4] and was said to have an income of £4,000 per annum.

In the General election of 1754, he was elected to Parliament for Bishop's Castle, a "rotten borough", where his uncle Samuel Child had been the M.P. until his death in 1753. The borough was under the control of the Walcots, who owed a great deal of money to Child's Bank. Backwell was classified as a Tory in Dupplin's list of 1754.[5]

He died the following October. He had married twice, firstly Margaret (d. 1745), the daughter of Samuel Clarke, a London merchant, and secondly Sarah Gibbon, with whom he had a son and three daughters. His daughter, Elizabeth Tyringham, married William Praed.

References

  1. [1]
    A View near Twickenham. British Museum. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  2. [2]
    Dr William Battie. Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  3. [3]
    BACKWELL, Barnaby (d.1754), of Tyringham, Bucks. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  4. [4]
    Edward Backwell. RBS. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  5. [5]
    BACKWELL, Barnaby (d.1754), of Tyringham, Bucks. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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