Filmer Honywood was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of Great Britain

The House of Commons of Great Britain was the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801. In 1707, as a result of the Acts of Union of that year, it replaced the House of Commons of England and the third estate of the Parliament of Scotland, as one of the most significant...

 variously between 1774 and 1806.

Honywood was the son of Sir John Honywood, 3rd Baronet and his second wife Dorothy Filmer, daughter of Sir Edward Filmer, 3rd Baronet.

Honywood was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Steyning

Steyning (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1774 and held the seat until 1780. He was elected MP for Kent

Kent (UK Parliament constituency)

Kent was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Kent in southeast England. It returned two "knights of the shire" to the House of Commons by the bloc vote system from the year 1290...

 in 1780 and held the seat until 1796. He was re-elected MP for Kent in 1802 and held the seat until 1806.

Honywood lived at Hull Place in Ottenden and in 1785 inherited Marks Hall, Essex from his uncle General Philip Honywood

Philip Honywood

General Philip Honywood was a British army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1784.Honywood was the son of Robert Honywood and his wife Mary Sandford, daughter of Sir Richard Sandford, Bart...

. He died unmarried.

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