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169: 267:, and on her brother's death in 1766 she succeeded to property. She died at Botleys, 19 August 1790, having had nine children, four of whom were then alive. The second and last baronet was Sir Joseph Mawbey, who died 28 August 1817. The estate of Botleys was sold by his trustees in 1822. Several members of the family of Pratt were buried at Lambeth, and a monument was erected by Mawbey to their memory in 1779. Joseph was the administrator of his brother in-law William Alcock's estate when the latter died, leaving a young family who Joseph supported. Joseph procured a clerkship at the Treasury for one of William's sons who was also called Joseph. 33: 916: 71:
border, on 2 December 1730, the fourth son and youngest child of John Mawbey (died 4 September 1754 aged 61), by his first wife, Martha, daughter of Thomas Pratt (died in September 1737). Both parents were buried at Ravenstone, where Joseph erected in 1764 a mural monument in the church. When about
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were returned. Vincent died in May 1775, causing a chance vacancy; and in June 1775 Mawbey was at the head of the poll. He was in the same position in 1780, when he offended some of his Whig supporters through his refusal to coalesce with
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Mawbey then ceased to sit in parliament. He died at Botleys, 16 June 1798, and was buried in the family vault in the chancel of Chertsey Church, where his wife and several of his children had preceded him. The tomb was designed by
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in 1763, on which he built a large house, and for a quarter of a century was chairman of the Surrey quarter sessions. From 1761 to 1768 and from 1768 to 1774 he sat for
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Mawbey was unpopular with the local gentry. He claimed to be above party, but was in the end a figure of fun and satire: he was introduced by
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had bribed Michael Curry, Wilkes's printer and a witness. Speeches by Mawbey on the proceedings against Wilkes were later published, in the
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that gave Wilkes practical support, and took Wilkes's side in the internal struggle, leading to a split in the Society, with supporters of
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On 14 November 1768 John Wilkes presented a petition through Mawbey. It covered points including the case brought over
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The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and Miscellanies
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became a Liberal MP. Joseph procured a military commission for a second of William's sons also called
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Mawbey married in August 1760 Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of his cousin, Richard Pratt of
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ten years old he was taken to Surrey by his uncle, Joseph Pratt, main owner of a distillery at
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from 1765. He was created a baronet (30 July 1765) as a political ally by the
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David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: poetry, patronage, and politics in the age of union
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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and in London in the same year. He is also credited with some
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On his uncle's death in 1754, Mawbey inherited property in
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into his caricatures. He became a supporter of the Tory
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and established himself as a landed proprietor. He was
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between 1761 and 1790. He was a political supporter of
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and was appointed treasurer of the ordnance in 1810.
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Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Baronet

British House of Commons
John Wilkes
Ravenstone
Derbyshire
Leicestershire
Vauxhall
Surrey
High Sheriff of Surrey
Chertsey
Southwark
Henry Thrale
Marquess of Rockingham
The North Briton
Lord Mansfield
Philip Carteret Webb
Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet
Bill of Rights Society
John Horne
county of Surrey
George Onslow
Sir Francis Vincent, 7th Baronet
James Scawen
Admiral Keppel

James Gillray
James Gillray
Pitt the Younger
William Clement Finch

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