Constituency Dates
Bristol 1701 (Feb.) – 1710, 1715 – 1722
Family and Education
b. c. 1656. m. Elizabeth, 2da.1PCC 205 Bolton. Kntd. 28 Nov. 1694.
Offices Held

Warden, society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol 1692 – 93, master 1698 – 1700; sheriff, Bristol 1694 – 95, mayor 1700–1.2A. Beaven, Bristol Lists, 285; Trade of Bristol in 18th Cent. (Bristol Rec. Soc. xx) 144 n.4.

Address
Main residence: Bristol, Glos.
biography text

A prominent Bristol merchant, trading to Virginia and Maryland,3CSP Col. 1702-3, pp. 57, 95. Daines was re-elected for Bristol as a Whig after a contest in 1715, voting with the Administration. In April 1719 he claimed that it had cost him above £10,000 to represent Bristol.4Cal. Treas. Pprs. 1714-19, p. 496. Retiring in 1722 owing to failing health, he died 5 Sept. 1724 at Bath, aged 68, leaving £10,000 to the children of his two daughters,5J. Latimer, Annals of Bristol in 18th Cent. 130-1; Pol. State xxviii. 315; PCC 205 Bolton. one of whom married the 1st Lord Barrington.

Author
S.R.M.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. PCC 205 Bolton.
  • 2. A. Beaven, Bristol Lists, 285; Trade of Bristol in 18th Cent. (Bristol Rec. Soc. xx) 144 n.4.
  • 3. CSP Col. 1702-3, pp. 57, 95.
  • 4. Cal. Treas. Pprs. 1714-19, p. 496.
  • 5. J. Latimer, Annals of Bristol in 18th Cent. 130-1; Pol. State xxviii. 315; PCC 205 Bolton.