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Sir Godfrey Webster, 5th Baronet

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Godfrey Webster with his mother, by Louis Gauffier (1794)

Sir Godfrey Vassall Webster, 5th Baronet (6 October 1789 – 17 July 1836) was an English Tory Member of Parliament (MP).

Webster succeeded to the baronetcy in May 1800.

He was elected at the 1812 general election as an MP for Sussex. He was re-elected in 1818, and held the seat until the 1820 general election, when he did not stand again in Sussex.

In 1815 he was one of the Original Members of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "W" (part 1)
  2. ^ Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) . Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 330. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byCharles William Wyndham
John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
Member of Parliament for Sussex
18121820
With: Walter Burrell
Succeeded byEdward Jeremiah Curteis
Walter Burrell
Baronetage of England
Preceded byGodfrey Webster Baronet
(of Copthall, Essex)
1800–1836
Succeeded byGodfrey Vassall Webster


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