Anthony Keck (Woodstock MP)
Anthony Keck | |
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Member of Parliament for Woodstock | |
In office 1753–1767 Serving with Viscount Bateman | |
Preceded by | Viscount Bateman |
Succeeded by | Viscount Bateman Hon. William Gordon |
Personal details | |
Born | Anthony Tracy 1708 |
Died | 29 May 1767 | (aged 58–59)
Spouse(s) | Lady Susan Hamilton
(m. 1736) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | John Tracy |
Anthony Keck (1708 – 29 May 1767)[1] was an English politician.
Early life[]
He was born the second son of John Tracy of Stanway House, Gloucestershire and Anne (née Atkins) Tracy.[2]
His mother was the only daughter of Sir Robert Atkins of Saperton, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. His father was the only surviving son of Hon. Ferdinando Tracy (third son of John Tracy, 3rd Viscount Tracy) and Catherine Keck (eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Keck MP and Commissioner of the Great Seal).[2]
Career[]
He succeeded to the Keck estates at Great Tew in Oxfordshire of his great-uncle Francis Keck in 1729, adopting the name of Keck according to a condition of the bequest. From 1744 he lived at Richmond House in Twickenham.[3]
A protégé of the Duke of Marlborough,[4] he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock from 1753 to 1767.[1]
Personal life[]
He had married in 1736 Lady Susan Hamilton (1706–1753), the daughter of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and Hon. Elizabeth Gerard (only daughter and heiress of Digby Gerard, 5th Baron Gerard). Together, they had two daughters:
- Henrietta Charlotte Tracy (1740/1–1817), who married Edward Devereux, 12th Viscount Hereford in 1774.
- Susan Tracy (d. 1835), who married Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, a grandson of James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss, in 1771.[5]
A keen participant in horse racing, he died of apoplexy at Epsom races in 1767 when his horse won a race.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
- ^ a b "Hamilton, Duke of (S, 1643)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ "Anthony Keck Racehorse breeder 1708 - 1767". The Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ a b Cruickshanks, Eveline (1970). R. Sedgwick (ed.). "KECK, Anthony (1708-67), of Great Tew, Oxon". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
- ^ "Wemyss, Earl of (S, 1633)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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- 1767 deaths
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