William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford (19 February 1798 – 28 September 1869), was a British peer.
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Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover. He married Jane, the daughter of William Thoyts of Sulhamstead House in Berkshire and his wife, Jane, the daughter & co-heiress of Abram Newman of Mount Bures, Essex, the famous London tea merchant. They lived together at Wynford House at Wynford Eagle in Dorset.
Wynford sat as Member of Parliament for Mitchell (also known as St Michael's) between 1831 and 1832, when the constituency was disenfranchised through the Great Reform Act.[1] He succeeded his father in the barony in 1845.
Lord Wynford died in September 1869, aged 71, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William.
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| Preceded by Hon. Lloyd Kenyon John Heywood Hawkins |
Member of Parliament for Mitchell 1831–1832 With: Hon. Lloyd Kenyon |
Constituency abolished |
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| Preceded by William Draper Best |
Baron Wynford 1845–1869 |
Succeeded by William Draper Best |