George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton (12 October 1631 - 27 May 1714) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of England

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 from 1660 to 1698.

Saunderson was born in Fillingham, Lincolnshire, the son of Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton and his wife Frances Manners, daughter of Sir George Manners of Haddon, Derbyshire. He inherited the viscountcy in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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 in 1650 on the death of his brother.

In 1660, Saunderson was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Lincolnshire

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 in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Lincolnshire in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament

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 and held the seat until 1698.

Saunderson died in Sandbeck, West Riding, Yorkshire at the age of 82.

Saunderson married firstly Grace Belasyse, daughter of Henry Belasyse

Henry Belasyse

Henry Belasyse , also known as Henry Bellasis was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1625 and 1642....

  and secondly, Sarah Wray, widow of Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet

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  of Glentworth, and daughter of Sir John Evelyn

John Evelyn (Parliamentarian)

Sir John Evelyn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1626 and 1660.Evelyn was the son of George Evelyn of West Dean, a clerk in Chancery, and his wife Elizabeth Rivers, daughter of Sir John Rivers of Chafford, Kent...

, of West Dean, Her father left her just five shillings in his will because he disapproved of her marriage to Castleton.