WESTBY, Wardell George (d.1726), of Ravenfield, Yorks.

On Westby’s marriage his father gave up to him the estate of Ravenfield, which had been in the family since the early seventeenth century, but he was ultimately forced to sell it owing to the extravagance of his wife.J. W. Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 253 n.1. Returned for Malton on the Wentworth Woodhouse interest, he voted with the Government till 1731, when he vacated his seat on being appointed to a commissionership of customs, which he retained till his death, 9 Dec. 1756.