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Whilst his wife
Elizabeth (née Lant) was a considerable heiress to large slum estates in Southwark of over 17 acres and containing 400 houses, he exhausted a large part of her fortune on Parliamentary life. She died in 1793 and they had no children. He left his estates on his death, in 1809, to his
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Gainsborough portrait has been at auction several times in the past 25 years: it made £1.2m in 1987, and then £2.65m in 2002, both times setting a world record for Gainsborough. Before the 1987 sale it had been in the same British collection for 90 years - for a long time it was on loan to the
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Member for the county continuously and without contest for 26 years until his death in 1809. This absence of contest was due a "family compact", which was the outcome of the ruinous expenses of the two previous elections, by which for more than thirty years one Whig and one Tory were regularly
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The long duration of the "compact" was due to the high respect in which
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showing the colonel in full uniform resting his left elbow on a pedestal which supports a classic urn. In his right hand, he holds his laced hat. By his side sits a large
Newfoundland dog. In the background are trees and water.
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nephew, Jonathan Josiah
Christopher Watson, son of his sister, Elizabeth who had married Jonathan Watson JP DL FRS of Ringhall in Suffolk. In 1810, Jonathan Josiah Christopher took the surname Bullock under the
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At the age of 23, he embarked on a parliamentary career that lasted 56 years and culminated in him becoming father of the house until his death.
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The death of the colonel without issue led to the first break in the regular family succession for more than 200 years, since John
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