John Mordaunt (MP)

The Honourable John Mordaunt (c. 1709 – 1767), was a British soldier and politician.

Mordaunt 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 Hon. 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 the lieutenant colonel of the Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse, which he commanded at Culloden.

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    Parliament of Great Britain
    Preceded by
    Thomas Bennet
    William Levinz    		 Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire
    1739–1747
    With: William Levinz    		 Succeeded by
    Lord Robert Manners-Sutton
    John Thornhagh
    Preceded by
    The Viscount Doneraile
    Thomas Orby Hunter    		 Member of Parliament for Winchelsea
    1747–1754
    With: Thomas Orby Hunter    		 Succeeded by
    Thomas Orby Hunter
    Arnold Nesbitt
    Preceded by
    Sir Thomas Robinson
    Harry Powlett    		 Member of Parliament for Christchurch
    1754–1761
    With: Sir Thomas Robinson    		 Succeeded by
    Thomas Robinson
    James Harris
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