Bamber Gascoyne (the elder)

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Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1725–1791), was an 18th-century English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1761 and 1786.

Gascoyne was the son of Sir Crisp Gascoyne and Margaret Bamber. After his education at Felsted School, he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1743.{{alox2|title=Gascoyne, Bamber (1)}}

Gascoyne served as member of Parliament for several constituencies including Maldon (1761–1763), Midhurst (1765–1768), and Truro (1774–1784).{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Namier |editor1-first=Lewis|editor2-last=Brooke |editor2-first=John|editor2-link=John Brooke (British historian)|last=Namier|first=Lewis|authorlink=Lewis Bernstein Namier|encyclopedia=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/gascoyne-bamber-1725-91|year=1964 |title=Gascoyne, Bamber (1725-91)|isbn=9780436304200|publisher=Haynes|location=London}} From 1779 to 1782 he was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in the administration of Lord North.John Nichols, ed., The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 135 (1824), [https://books.google.com/books?id=06bPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA184 p. 184]

He married Mary Green, daughter of Isaac Green, a Lancashire lawyer, and his wife Mary Aspinwall. He was the father of Bamber Gascoyne (junior) and Isaac Gascoyne, and an ancestor of TV quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne. {{cite web |url=http://www.william1.co.uk/w170.htm |title=Conqueror 170 |work=Genealogy of William, Duke of Normandy, King of England, and Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders |access-date=7 January 2025 |first=Alan |last=Freer}} He was a great-grandfather of Frederick Gascoyne.{{Cite book |last=Drysdale |first=Helena |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm63185977 |title=Strangerland: a family at war |date=2006 |publisher=Picador |isbn=978-0-330-41169-1 |location=London |oclc=ocm63185977}}