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Brydges Henniker

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Lieutenant-General Sir Brydges Trecothic Henniker, 1st Baronet (10 November 1767 – 3 July 1816) was a politician and British Army officer.

Biography

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Henniker was the youngest son of John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker and Anne Major, daughter of Sir John Major, 1st Baronet.

He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Kildare Borough between 1797 and the constituency's disenfranchisement under the Acts of Union 1800.[1] On 2 November 1813 he was created a baronet, of Newton Hall in the County of Essex in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[2]

He gained the rank of lieutenant-general while serving in the British Army.

On 25 September 1791 he married Mary Pressy. Upon his death he was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Sir Frederick Henniker, 2nd Baronet.

References

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  1. ^ E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.96 (Retrieved 29 March 2020).
  2. ^ William Courthope, Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838), p.699 (Retrieved 29 March 2020).
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Kildare Borough
1797–1800
With: James Fitzgerald
Succeeded by
Constituency disenfranchised
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Newton Hall)
1813–1816
Succeeded by