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William Lewis (MP for Devizes)

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cause and he travelled in France and Italy between 1642 and 1646. In 1647 he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his elder brother.
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on 24 June 1649, and had two sons and two daughters. The marriage enabled him to buy an estate at Bletchington in 1656 for £10,000. His son
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Lewis was the second son of Sir Edward Lewis, a courtier, and his wife Lady Anne Sackville, daughter of
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from January 1660 and was commissioner of militia for Oxfordshire in March 1660. He was a
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on 12 October 1638, aged 14. His mother sent her eldest sons abroad during the
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and his daughter Elizabeth married firstly Sir Francis Dayrell and secondly
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Lewis married Margaret Banastre, daughter of Lawrence Banastre of
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and widow of Sir Edward Seymour. His father owned The Van,
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690
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from March 1660 until his death. In 1660, he was elected
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Index

William Lewis (Devizes MP)
William Lewis (disambiguation) § Politicians
House of Commons
Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset
Glamorgan
Edington Priory
Wiltshire
Jesus College, Oxford
English Civil War
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset
royalist
Oxfordshire
J.P.
Member of Parliament
Devizes
Deputy Lieutenant
Boarstall
Buckinghamshire
Edward
Richard
William Jephson
Sir William Morgan
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Frances Stewart
Charles II of England



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