William Allestry was an English and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 from 1685 to 1689.

Allestry was the son of Roger Allestry

Roger Allestry

Roger Allestry was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1665.Allestry was the son of Thomas Allestry of Alvaston, Derbyshire and his second wife Constance Isley. He was a commissioner for assessment at Derby in 1657 and from 1660 until his death...

 of Alvaston

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Alvaston is a suburb and ward of Derby, England. Alvaston is situated on the A6, three miles south-east of Derby city centre. It is bordered to the north by the wards of Derwent, Chaddesden and Spondon, to the east is the City Centre, to the south are Sinfin and Chellaston and to the west the...

, Derbyshire and his wife Sarah Bradshaw, daughter of William Bradshaw of Derby. His father had been MP for Derby.

He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford and at Gray's Inn

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. He was commissioner for assessment at Derby from 1673 to 1680 and a J.P.

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 for Derbyshire from 1680. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire

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 in 1683.

In 1685 Allestry was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament

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 for Derby

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 and held the seat until 1689. He played little part in parliament and was unsuccessful when he stood in 1690. Soon after he sold his estates at Walton-on-Trent and moved to Middlesex where he was a J.P.

Allestry died around 1700, "in great perplexity and trouble by reason of his debts".

He had married in 1668 Frances Lorymer, daughter of John Lorymer, apothecary of London.