Barnaby Backwell
Barnaby Backwell (died 3 October 1754) was the member of Parliament for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, in 1754.
Early life[]
Barnaby Backwell was the second but first surviving son of of Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Child, Lord Mayor of London.[3] He was the grandson of the financier Edward Backwell.
Career[]
Backwell was a partner in the bank of Samuel and Francis Child,[4] and said to have an income of £4,000 per annum.
In the General election of 1754 he was elected to Parliament for Bishop's Castle, a "rotten borough", where his uncle Samuel Child had been the M.P. until his death in 1753. The borough was under the control of the Walcots who owed a great deal of money to Child's bank. Backwell was classed as a Tory in Dupplin's list of 1754.[3]
He died the following October. He had married twice, firstly Margaret (d. 1745), the daughter of Samuel Clarke, a London merchant, and secondly Sarah Gibbon, with whom he had a son and 3 daughters. His daughter, Elizabeth Tyringham, married William Praed.
References[]
- ^ A View near Twickenham. British Museum. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ Dr William Battie. Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ a b BACKWELL, Barnaby (d.1754), of Tyringham, Bucks. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ Edward Backwell. RBS. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
External links[]
- 1754 deaths
- People from Buckinghamshire
- Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
- British MPs 1754–1761
- Politics of Shropshire
- English bankers
- Backwell family
- Twickenham
- Great Britain MP (1707–1800) for England stubs