Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet (c. 1714 – 21 May 1777), was a British

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 Member of Parliament

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Wodehouse was the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet

Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet

Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet was a British Member of Parliament.A member of an old Norfolk family, Wodehouse succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy 6 May 1681. In 1695 he was elected to the House of Commons for Thetford, a seat he held until 1698 and again from 1701 to 1702 and 1705 to...

, and Mary Fermor. He was elected to the House of Commons

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 for Norfolk

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 in 1737, a seat he held until 1768. In 1754 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy.

Wodehouse married Letitia Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet, in 1738. He died in 1777 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John

John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse

John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse , known as Sir John Wodehouse, 6th Baronet, from 1777 to 1797, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....

, who was created Baron

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 Wodehouse in 1797 and who was the great-grandfather of statesman

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 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley KG , PC , known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal politician...

. Wodehouse's second son Reverend Philip Wodehouse was the great-grandfather of the author P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

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 while his third son Thomas Wodehouse was the grandfather of the colonial administrator Sir Philip Wodehouse.