John Mordaunt (MP)

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John Mordaunt (c. 1709 – 1767), British soldier and politician, was the second son of John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt and Frances Powlett.

He was a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards from 1726 to 1736. He married Mary Howe (d. 1749), the daughter of Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe, in November 1735, and later Elizabeth Hamilton, but left no children. In 1745, he rejoined the Army to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Horse.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Bennett
William Levinz
Member for Nottinghamshire
with William Levinz

1739–1747
Succeeded by
Lord Robert Manners-Sutton
John Thornhagh
Preceded by
The Viscount Doneraile
Thomas Orby Hunter
Member for Winchelsea
with Thomas Orby Hunter

1747–1754
Succeeded by
Thomas Orby Hunter
Arnold Nesbitt
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Robinson
Harry Powlett
Member for Christchurch
with Sir Thomas Robinson

1754–1761
Succeeded by
Thomas Robinson
James Harris