biography text
Hanbury Williams was well-known as a diplomatist and man of letters. He was returned for Leominster, where he was high steward, on the interest of his wife’s estate of Hampton Court, Herefordshire. He left England in August 1754, before the new Parliament assembled, and when he returned in February 1758 was insane and unable to take any part in public life. After a partial recovery in the summer of 1758, he became ill again in the December, and died by his own hand on 2 Nov. 1759.