SAMBROOKE, Sir Jeremy Vanacker, 4th Bt. (?1703-40), of Bush Hill, nr. Enfield, Mdx.

Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, whose father succeeded to the baronetcy under special remainder on the death of his maternal uncle Sir John Vanacker, 2nd Bt., came of a wealthy family of merchants, long connected with the East India Company and Madras. In 1731 he was reputed to be worth £12,000 a year.1Diary of Benjamin Rogers (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xxx), 23. Having acquired considerable estates in the north of Bedfordshire from 1719,2VCH Beds. iii. 105, 137, 177. he stood as a Tory at several by-elections, but was unsuccessful at Queenborough in February 1728, Wendover in March 1728, and Queenborough again, January 1729.3See QUEENBOROUGH. However, at Bedford in January 1731, with the support of the young 3rd Duke of Bedford and a lavish expenditure of money, he defeated his Whig opponent, Dr. Thomas Browne, who had hoped to gain a majority through the creation of a large number of voting freemen.4See BEDFORD. Re-elected unopposed in 1734, he voted against the Administration in all recorded divisions till his death 5 July 1740.