Sir Anthony Abdy, 5th Baronet
Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, 5th Baronet, KC (c. 1720 – 7 April 1775)[1] was a British barrister and Whig politician.
Family[edit]
He was the eldest son of Sir William Abdy, 4th Baronet (of the 1641 creation), and his wife Mary Stotherd, daughter of Philip Stotherd.[2] Abdy was educated at Felsted School and went then to St John's College, Cambridge.[3] On 13 August 1747, Abdy married Catherine Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton of Chancery Lane.[4] Their wedding was held in St Paul's Cathedral in London.[5] In 1750, he succeeded his father as baronet[6] and in 1759 also inherited the estates of Sir John Abdy, 4th Baronet, the great-grandchild of the brother of his great-grandfather.[7] These estates included Albyns, in Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, which he made his home.
Abdy suffered from gout in his last years, and died of it in 1775.[8] Having no children, Abdy was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother William.[9] The Albyns estate passed to his nephew, Thomas Abdy Rutherforth (1755–98) and his other property, including Chobham Place in Surrey, to William.
Political career[edit]
Abdy was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1738 and was called to the Bar after six years.[8] He managed the estates of Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet, and was adviser to Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.[8] In June 1749, Abdy was one of the witnesses to the marriage of David Garrick and Eva Maria Veigel, along with the Countess of Burlington. In 1758, he became a bencher and in 1765 he was appointed a King's Counsel.[8]
In 1763 Sir Henry Slingsby, 5th Baronet died and Abdy, with the support of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Burlington's son-in-law,[8] stood as Member of Parliament (MP) for Knaresborough, a seat he held until his death in 1775.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 373.
- ^ "Abdy, Anthony Thomas (ABDY738AT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Will of John Hamilton of Chancery Lane , Middlesex".
- ^ "ThePeerage - Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, 5th Bt". Retrieved 14 March 2007.
- ^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 138.
- ^ Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. pp. 1–2.
- ^ a b c d e Sir Lewis Namier, John Brooke, ed. (2002). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Vol. II. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Knaresborough". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
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