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Samuel Tufnell

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rose, they would be entitled to receive the difference. Tufnell's name was on the list as being allotted £5,000 worth. The matter was not pursued by the Commons and he professed he was able to clear himself after ‘a scandalous list that was handed about giving him as one of the member who received South Sea stock for giving their votes for the South Sea bill’. He did not stand at the
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In June 1717, he exchanged words with Walpole after Walpole insinuated that his support for the impeachment of Lord Oxford, was in deference to Walpole's power rather than his person. When there was a split in the Whig party he was given a temporary place as commissioner of the equivalent on 24 July
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The secret committee of the Commons on the South Sea affair presented a report containing the names of a number of Members who had allowed themselves to be put down by the Company for stock without paying for it, on the understanding that if the South Sea bill went through and the stock consequently
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as a Walpole Whig. He voted for the excise bill and against the repeal of the Septennial Act. In June 1732 he was appointed a commissioner for settling commerce at Antwerp, dealing with the commissioners of the Emperor and the States General on commercial and other matters arising out of the treaty
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Tufnell succeeded his uncle, Sir William Jolliffe, to Pleshey, Essex in 1750. He died on 28 December 1758 and was buried at Pleshey. He left three sons and two daughters.
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and after the negotiations opened at Antwerp in 1737, he remained there and made occasional visits to England. The negotiations ended inconclusively on the outbreak of the
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Tufnell was the son of John Tufnell, brewer, of St Mary's Undershaft, London, and Monken Hadley, Middlesex, and his wife Elizabeth Jolliffe, daughter of
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in 1699 and called to the bar in 1703. He undertook a Grand Tour through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland from 1703 to 1705. He became a
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in 1698. On the death of his father in 1699, he succeeded to the family estate, under the trusteeship of his uncles,
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Selling Antiques - Portrait Of Samuel Tufnell (1682-1758); English School, Follower Of Highmore
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in 1720 he supported Walpole's efforts to limit the actions against its authors.
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on petition on 20 May 1715. He spoke in support of the septennial bill in 1716.
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After spending time out of Parliament, Tufnell successfully contested
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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1717 which lapsed on 18 April 1719, after which he spoke against the
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Tufnell stood with Sir William Jolliffe as a Whig candidate for
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in 1709 In 1710 he purchased the manor of Langleys, at
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Tufnell was returned on Walpole's nomination as MP for
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MP married Anna daughter of William Meeke of Beverley
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House of Commons

John Jolliffe
Merton College, Oxford
Sir William Jolliffe
Sir Edward Northey
Middle Temple
Fellow of the Royal Society
Great Waltham
Maldon
1715 British general election
Member of Parliament
Peerage Bill
South Sea bubble
1722 British general election
Colchester
1727 British general election
1734 British general election
War of Austrian succession
Great Marlow
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1747 British general election
John Joliffe
George
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Historic England
"Langleys (1305533)"

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