Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, 3rd Baronet (30 August 1745 – 10 June 1828) was an MP in the British Parliament. He was the eldest surviving son of Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet, and the brother in law of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway. He inherited the baronetcy on 10 November 1779.

He represented Wigtown Burghs 1775-1780. He was seated following an election petition after the 1774 general election. Dashwood was the fourth Englishman to represent Wigtown Burghs in Parliament. He voted in support of Lord North in the 1770's. He failed to be elected for Canterbury in 1780. As a friend of the heir to the Duke of Marlborough he was elected MP for the pocket borough of Woodstock and represented it 1784-1820.

In 1775 his debts had amounted to the enormous sum of £25,000 and his father had to pay them. After he came into his inheritance Dashwood sold most of the family estate to pay further debts.

He held the (unpaid) appointment of Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from March 1783 until his death. No more lucrative office was bestowed on the free-spending Baronet.

Dashwood tried to persuade William Pitt the Younger to give him a peerage in 1794, as he was a supporter of the government. Unhappily for Dashwood no preferment was forthcoming.

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• History of Parliament: House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and James Brooke (Sidgwick & Jackson 1964)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by William Norton	Member of Parliament for Wigtown Burghs 1775–1780	Succeeded by William Adam
Preceded by William Eden Viscount Parker	Member of Parliament for Woodstock with Francis Burton 1784–1790 Lord Henry John Spencer 1790–1795 Ralph Payne 1795–1799 Charles Moore 1799–1801 1784–1801	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Woodstock with Charles Moore 1801–1802 Charles Abbot 1802–1806 William Frederick Elliot Eden 1806–1810 George Eden 1810–1812, 1813–1814 William Thornton 1812–1813, 1814–1818 Lord Robert Spencer 1818–1820 1801–1820	Succeeded by John Gladstone James Haughton Langston
Baronetage of England
Preceded by James Dashwood	Baronet (of Northbrooke) 1779–1828	Succeeded by George Dashwood