Constituency Dates
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1741 – 1747
Family and Education
b. c. 1712, s. of Samuel Raymond, brewer, of London by Anne, da. of Nicholas Skinner of Firbeck, Yorks. m. (1) 10 Nov. 1735, Britannia (d. 2 May 1743), da. of James Lamb of Hackney, haberdasher, 1s. 2da.; (2) 21 June 1744, Mary, also da. of James Lamb, 3da. suc. fa. 1730.
Address
Main residences: Tower Hill, London; Hatchlands, Surr.
biography text

In 1741 John Raymond, a London brewer, described by Sir Robert Walpole as ‘a Dissenter who is to find money’,1Sir Dudley Ryder’s diary, 9 Aug. 1740, Harrowby mss. was put up for Weymouth by George Bubb Dodington. Returned as an opposition Whig, he voted against the Government in all recorded divisions till 1746, when he was absent from the division on the Hanoverians. Not standing again, he died 21 Jan. 1782, having for 24 years held the office of brewer to the board of victualling.2Gent. Mag. 1782, p. 47.

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Notes
  • 1. Sir Dudley Ryder’s diary, 9 Aug. 1740, Harrowby mss.
  • 2. Gent. Mag. 1782, p. 47.