William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford

William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford (19 February 1798 – 28 February 1869), was a British peer.

Background

Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.

He married Jane, the daughter of William Thoyts of Sulhamstead House in Berkshire and his wife, Jane, the daughter & co-heiress of Abram Newman of Mount Bures, Essex, the famous London tea merchant. They lived together at Wynford House at Wynford Eagle in Dorset. Wynford had a London home at 5 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair. [1]

Political career

Wynford sat as Member of Parliament for Mitchell (also known as St Michael's) between 1831 and 1832, when the constituency was disenfranchised through the Great Reform Act.[2] He succeeded his father in the barony in 1845.

Personal life

Lord Wynford died in February 1869, aged 71, at 7 Park Place, St James', Middlesex, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William.

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References
  1. "Upper Brook Street: North Side Pages 200-210 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings). Originally published by London County Council, London, 1980". British History Online. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. leighrayment.com House of Commons: Mitcham to Motherwell South
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Hon. Lloyd Kenyon
John Heywood Hawkins		 Member of Parliament for Mitchell
1831–1832
With: Hon. Lloyd Kenyon		 Constituency abolished
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Draper Best		 Baron Wynford
1845–1869		 Succeeded by
William Draper Mortimer Best
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