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Sir John Hippisley, 1st Baronet

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In 1779 Hippisley travelled to Italy where he became the British government's man in Rome. He married his first wife Margaret Stuart in Rome in February 1780. Margaret was the second daughter of Sir John Stuart, third Baronet of Allanbank. They had four children together – Margaret Frances, born
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Hippisley had no children with Elizabeth. He retired from political life in 1818 and died on 3 May 1825 in Grosvenor Street, London. He was buried in the Inner Temple vault on 12 May 1825. His monument was sculpted by
193: 279:, London, whereupon the Ston Easton estate was inherited by her grandnephew, John Hippisley. Sir John was succeeded as baronet by John Stuart Hippisley, his son by his first wife, but he died unmarried in 264:, while in 1810 the wit and politician Joseph Jekyll described how during a speech by Hippisley in parliament 'the house coughed him down five times in vain, and the catarrh lasted two hours'. 616: 601: 120:
in 1771. He was Treasurer of the Inner Temple from 19 November 1813 to 17 November 1814 and his monogram can be seen above the doorways of Nos. 10 and 11 King's Bench Walk.
256:, vice-president of the West of England Agricultural Society and a member of the Society of Antiquaries. He was however not a popular man with all his contemporaries. The 591: 147:. At the general elections of 1796 and 1801 he was not returned to Parliament, but he was successful in 1802 and retained his seat until 1818 when he retired from the 170:, eldest daughter of George III. After bringing the negotiations to a successful conclusion, Hippisley finally received his long-sought baronetcy on 10 May 1796 154:
In 1792 Hippisley returned to Italy and remained there until 1795, during which time he served as a semi-official representative of the British Prime Minister
596: 84:(c. February 1746 – 3 May 1825), was a British diplomat and politician who pursued an 'unflagging, though wholly unsuccessful, quest for office' which led 222: 143:. He resigned from the Company in 1787 and returned to England in 1789. In the following year he was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for 148: 611: 238: 234: 621: 463: 459: 454: 398: 144: 636: 606: 185:. Cardinal York was living in France, ill and penniless, and Hippisley persuaded George III to award him an annual pension of £4,000. 586: 68: 46: 488: 433: 349: 252:, one of the principal promoters of the literary institutions of Bath and Bristol, a member of the government committee of the 218: 656: 651: 646: 641: 581: 407: 403: 163: 132: 162:. Upon returning to England he was called upon to negotiate the marriage between Prince Frederick of Württemberg (later 442: 421: 386: 225:
in the early 19th century. In February 1801 he married his second wife, Elizabeth Anne Coxe (née Horner), the widow of
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referred to him as 'that great orator' and a 'great ass' in his diary, published as
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Caricature of Sir John Coxe Hippisley in the National Portrait Gallery's collection
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Sir John Coxe Hippisley: That 'Busy Man' in the Cause of Catholic Emancipation
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of a woman, traditionally identified as Margaret Stuart, Lady Hippisley (1785)
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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Grove, a red-brick Georgian mansion which he had bought from Admiral
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1780; Windhamina Barbara (probably named after Hippisley's friend
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to describe him as 'that busy man' and 'the grand intriguer'.
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Hippisley's first wife Margaret died on 24 September 1799 in
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Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis
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on 20 March 1867, whereupon the baronetcy became extinct.
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