Walter Norborne (died 1684)

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Walter Norborne (18 November 1655 – September 1684) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1679 and from 1681 to 1684. He was killed in a duel at the age of 28.

Norborne was the son of Walter Norborne of Hilmarton and his wife Mary Chivers, daughter of Henry Chivers of Quemerford and his wife Elizabeth Seacole of Milton, Oxfordshire.{{Cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol9/pp49-65 |series=Victoria County History |title=A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 9 |chapter=Hilmarton |pages=49–65 |editor-first=Elizabeth |editor-last=Crittall |author-first1=R. W. |author-last1=Dunning |author-first2=K. H. |author-last2=Rogers |author-first3=P. A. |author-last3=Spalding |author-first4=Colin |author-last4=Shrimpton |author-first5=Janet H. |author-last5=Stevenson |author-first6=Margaret |author-last6=Tomlinson |date=1970 |via=British History Online |publisher=University of London |access-date=15 October 2023}} His father was a Royalist MP for Calne.

In February 1679, Norborne was elected Member of Parliament for Calne and sat until August 1679. In 1681 he was re-elected MP for Calne and sat until his death in 1684.{{HistoryofParliament |1660 |first=Basil Duke |last=Henning |title=NORBORNE, Walter (1655-84), of Castle House, Calne, Wilts. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/norborne-walter-1655-84 |accessdate=15 October 2023}}

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Norborne was killed in a duel with an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple in September 1684.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Extract from the topographical collections of John Aubrey, 1659–70 |url=http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/gettextimage.php?id=7402 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320070609/http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/gettextimage.php?id=7402 |archive-date=20 March 2012 |website=Wiltshire Community History |publisher=Wiltshire Council |via=Internet Archive}}

Norborne married Frances Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon and his wife Elizabeth Crane.William Betham, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5ikwAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Walter+Norborne%22&pg=PA30 The baronetage of England, Volume 1] He left two daughters: Elizabeth, who married Edward Devereux, Viscount Hereford; and Susan, who married Sir Ralph Hare. The family estate was divided equally between them.