Family and Education
bap. 16 Sept. 1787, IGI (Salop). 1st s. of William Whitmore of Dudmaston and 1st w. Frances Barbara, da. of John Lyster of White Whitmore. educ. Shrewsbury 1799. m. 29 Jan. 1810, Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Georgiana Bridgman, da. of Orlando, 1st earl of Bradford, s.p. suc. fa. 1816. d. 11 Aug. 1858.
Offices Held
Ensign 1 Ft. Gds. 1804; lt.-col. 3 Salop militia 1808 – 15.
Sheriff, Salop 1838–9.
Main residence: Dudmaston Hall, Quatt, Salop.
Notes
Draws on the Dudmaston mss, seen by permission of the National Trust at Dudmaston Hall. No biography of Whitmore has been published, but his great-niece Mary Whitmore Jones’s novel The Grinding Mills (1903) is based on his life.
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Commons 1820-1832
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WHITMORE, William Wolryche (1787-1858)
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