William_Sneyd_(MP_for_Lichfield)

William Sneyd (MP for Lichfield)

William Sneyd (MP for Lichfield)

English politician

William Sneyd (c. 1693 – 11 February 1745) was an English politician who briefly sat in the House of Commons in 1718 as Member of Parliament for Lichfield.[1]

Sneyd was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1710.[2] He also attended the Middle Temple, being called to the bar in 1719.[1] He was elected on 24 April 1718 "by a very great mob with papers in their hats resembling white roses, headed by the same person that was captain of the famous riots at West Bromwich".[3] However, Sneyd was unseated on petition on 10 December.[1]

His cousin Ralph Sneyd was MP for Staffordshire from 1713 to 1715.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Eveline Cruickshanks, 'SNEYD, William (c.1693-1745), of Bishton, Staffs.', The History of Parliament
  2. [2]
    "William Sneyd (SNT710W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. [3]
    Paul Kleber Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 198.
  4. [4]
    Stuart Handley, 'SNEYD, Ralph (1692-1733), of Keele Hall and Bradwell, Staffs', The History of Parliament
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