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George Speke (politician, died 1753)

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Speke married twice after the death of his wife Alicia. He married Jane, the widowed daughter of William Hockmore of Combe-in-Teignhead, Devon in February 1732. Her former husbands were Palmer of Sharpham Park, Somerset, and William Pitt of Cricket Malherbie, Somerset. He then married, in July
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Speke died on 2 January 1753, leaving two daughters, but was predeceased by a son and another daughter. By his first wife Alicia he had one surviving daughter Mary who was left £10,000, and by his third wife Anne he had one surviving daughter
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of White Lackington and Dillington, MP, a wealthy and influential Somerset landowner and his second wife Elizabeth Pelham, daughter of Robert Pelham of Compton Valence, Dorset. He married Alicia Brooking, daughter of Nicholas Brooking.
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he was returned unopposed for Wells and continued to support the Administration. He was defeated at Wells in
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1737, Anne Lady Drake, widow of Sir William Drake, 6th Baronet, of Ashe, Devon and daughter of
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Milborne Port
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Portrait of George Speke of Curry Revel and White Lackington
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Taunton
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Wells
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White Lackington and Dillington
Somerset
House of Commons
John Speke
1715 general election
1722 general election
Member of Parliament
Milborne Port
Taunton
1727 general election
1734 general election
Wells
1741 general election
1747
William Peere Williams
Anne
Lord North




"SPEKE, George (d.1753), of White Lackington and Dillington, Som"
Parliament of Great Britain
Charles Stanhope
James Medlycott
Member of Parliament
Milborne Port
1722
1727

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