Sir William Abdy, 7th Baronet (1779 – 16 April 1868) was a British politician and baronet.
Background
Born in Marylebone, he was the only son of Sir William Abdy, 6th Baronet, and his wife Mary Gordon, daughter of James Gordon. Abdy was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1796. In 1803, he succeeded his father as baronet.
Career
He served in the British Army and was promoted to lieutenant of the South Essex Militia in 1798. Later he was second lieutenant of the Southwark Volunteers. In 1817, Abdy entered the British House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Malmesbury until the following year.
Abdy co-owned three estates in Antigua and St Vincent, and when the British government emancipated the slaves in the 1830s, he was compensated to the tune of about £13,000 for the liberation of over 300 slaves.
Family
On 3 July 1806, he married Anne Wellesley, eldest and illegitimate born, later legitimitated, daughter of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley and Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland, at Hyde Park Corner. At some point during their marriage, she became lover of Lord Charles Bentinck and as result Abdy and his wife were divorced in 1816. He never remarried and died aged 89, without legitimate issue, at Hill Street, London. With his death the baronetcy became extinct.
References
- "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 1.
- ^ Burke's Peerage 1999, page 1
- ^ Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. pp. 79–80.
- "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Malmesbury". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
- Sylvanus, Urban (1806). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: John Nichols and Son. p. 675.
- ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1868). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part I. London: Bradbury, Evans & Co. p. 778.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded byWilliam Hicks-Beach Peter Patten |
Member of Parliament for Malmesbury 1817 – 1818 With: Peter Patten |
Succeeded bySir Charles Forbes Kirkman Finlay |
| Baronetage of England | ||
| Preceded byWilliam Abdy | Baronet (of Felix Hall) 1803 – 1868 |
Extinct |
- 1779 births
- 1868 deaths
- Military personnel from the City of Westminster
- 18th-century British Army personnel
- 19th-century British Army personnel
- People from Marylebone
- 19th-century English landowners
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Baronets in the Baronetage of England
- British Militia officers
- Essex Regiment officers
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- People educated at Eton College
- UK MPs 1812–1818
- English slave owners