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Edward Colston (MP for Wells)

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213: 206: 200: 69:, he was returned again as Tory MP for Wells. He was listed as a 'Tory patriot' who supported peace, and a 'worthy patriot' who detected the mismanagements of the previous administration. He voted for the French commerce bill on 18 June 1713. He stood down for the 34:, a wealthy merchant, treated him as his heir, and settled a considerable amount of valuable land on him. Colston himself appears to have followed a business career in London, and by 1708 he was Governor of the City of London workhouse. 291: 29:
Colston was the fourth, but only surviving son of Robert Colston of Bristol and his wife Ann Waters, daughter of Robert Waters of Bristol. He married by licence dated 4 August 1704, Mary De Bert. On this marriage, his unmarried uncle,
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in a Tory attempt to break the Whigs' hold on the city's representation, but was unsuccessful. He became an honorary freeman of the
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at Bristol in 1708. He held the manor of Lydford West near Wells and at the
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Colston died on 5 April 1719, and was buried in the Colston vault at
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Colston was nominated by his uncle for Parliament at
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House of Commons
Edward Colston
1705 English general election
Bristol
Society of Merchant Venturers
1708 British general election
Member of Parliament
Wells
Henry Sacheverell
1710 British general election
1713 British general election
All Saints' Church, Bristol
Thomas Edwards



"COLSTON, Edward I (aft.1672-1719), of Bristol"
Parliament of Great Britain
Henry Seymour Portman
Maurice Berkeley
Member of Parliament for Bridgewater
1708
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William Coward
Maurice Berkeley
Sir Thomas Wroth, Bt
Maurice Berkeley
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