Humphrey Sydenham

Humphrey Sydenham (24 October 1694 – 12 August 1757) was an English Tory MP, sitting from 1741 to 1754 for Exeter.

Horace Walpole called him "a mad High Church zealot"[1] though on another occasion he wrote that Sydenham was "an honest devout gentleman, who always talked out of the Common Prayer Book".[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Horace Walpole, Memoirs of King George II. I: January 1751–March 1754 (Yale University Press, 1985), p. 35.
  2. ↑ Horace Walpole, The Correspondence of Horace Walpole. Volume 30 (Yale University Press, 1977), p. 292, n. 23.