CHAMPERNOWNE, Arthur (1767-1819), of Dartington Hall, Devon.

Harington’s father was the younger son of Sir James Harington, 6th Bt., of Burton, Oxon. As a boy he took the name of his maternal grandfather on succeeding to his late mother’s inheritance. His marriage paved the way to Parliament a month later: his brother-in-law James Buller II put him up at Saltash, where he was returned after a contest. On 19 Feb. 1807 he and his colleague were unseated on petition. Six days before, he had voted in the minority hostile to the Grenville ministry on the Hampshire election petition, his only known parliamentary gesture. The Marquess of Buckingham, whose nominees now came in for Saltash, claimed that Champernowne was ‘decidedly in opposition’. Thus ended his brief parliamentary career. He died 7 June 1819.1Fremantle mss, Buckingham to Fremantle, 20 Feb. 1807.