Bamber Gascoyne (the younger)
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Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1758 – 17 January 1824), was a British politician. He was an ancestor of two British Prime Ministers, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and Arthur Balfour.
He was the son of Bamber Gascoyne (senior) and Mary Green.
He was Member of Parliament for Liverpool from 1780 to 1796. He was succeeded as MP for Liverpool by his brother Isaac.{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Lichfield and Tamworth to London and Westminster South |access-date=29 October 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034529/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm |archive-date=29 October 2008 }}John Nichols, ed., The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 135 (1824), [https://books.google.com/books?id=06bPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA184 p. 184]
He spoke in Parliament against the abolition of the slave trade, and led the opposition to the Sierra Leone settlement bill, which successfully incorporated the Sierra Leone Company in 1791.Black poor and White Philanthropists: London's Blacks and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786-1791, by Stephen Braidwood, Liverpool University Press, 1994.
He was married to Sarah Bridget Frances Price, born in 1767, daughter of Chase Price and Susan Glanvile.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, p. 1649. Their daughter Frances Mary Gascoyne (c. 1806 – 15 October 1839) married, on 2 February 1821, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury. They became the parents of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and the grandparents of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.[http://thepeerage.com/p1432.htm#i14317 thepeerage.com Frances Mary Gascoyne]
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Category:British MPs 1780–1784
Category:British MPs 1784–1790
Category:British MPs 1790–1796
Category:Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Liverpool
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