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

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  between 1625 and 1646. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War

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Marlott was born in Sussex, the son of Thomas Marlott and his wife Dorothy Stapley.

In 1625 Marlott was elected Member of Parliament

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 for New Shoreham

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 and held the seat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for New Shoreham in the Short Parliament

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 and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament

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and held the seat until his death in 1646. Marlott was absent on a call of the House on 5 February 1644, being on service of the Parliament. He took the Covenant on 27 March, 1644.

Marlott died in 1646 and was buried on at Shoreham by Sea on 8 February 1646.