Sir Thomas Edward Winnington (1780 – 24 September 1839) was an English Whig and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1807 and 1837.

Winnington was the son of Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet

Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet

Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet , of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, was a British baronet and politician....

 of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme

Stanford-on-Teme

Stanford-on-Teme is a village and, with the village of Orleton just under one mile away, also a civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.-External links:*...

, Worcestershire. He inherited the Stanford Court estate from his father in 1805.

Winnington was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Droitwich

Droitwich (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1807 and held the seat until 1816. He was re elected in the 1831 UK general election and held the seat for a year. At the 1832 UK general election he was elected MP for Bewdley

Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and held the seat until 1837, when he was succeeded there by his son Thomas

Sir Thomas Winnington, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Edward Winnington 4th Baronet was an English Whig politician.He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Winnington, 3rd Baronet, of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire. He served as Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1837–1847 and again in 1852–1868 and as High Sheriff of...

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