John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (4 October 1771 – 16 March 1841), known as Sir John Wrottesley, 9th Baronet, from 1787 to 1838, was a British

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 soldier and Member of Parliament

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Wrottesley was the son of Sir John Wrottesley, 8th Baronet

Sir John Wrottesley, 8th Baronet

Sir John Wrottesley, 8th Baronet , of Wrottesley Hall in Staffordshire, was a British army officer and Member of Parliament....

. He served in the British Army

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 and achieved the rank of Major-General. Wrottesley also sat as a Member of Parliament for Lichfield

Lichfield (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1799 to 1806, for Staffordshire

Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1823 to 1832 and for Staffordshire South from 1832 to 1837. In 1838 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wrottesley, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford.

Lord Wrottesley married firstly Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville

Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville

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, in 1795. After his first wife's death in 1818 he married secondly Julia Conyers, daughter of John Conyers of Copped Hall

Copped Hall

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, Essex

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, in 1819. Julia was the widow of Captain John Astley Bennet RN, the brother of Wrottesley's first wife. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Wrottesley died in March 1841, aged 69, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son John Wrottesley

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS was an English astronomer.Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville. He succeeded his father in the barony on March 16, 1841...

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