COURTENAY, Kelland (?1707-48), of Tremeer, Cornw. and Painsford, Devon.

Courtenay, whose father and grandfather had represented Mitchell, where his family had a ‘good natural interest’, came in for Truro in 1734 ‘by compromise with Lord Falmouth’.Thomas Pitt’s survey of the Cornish boroughs c. Oct. 1740, Chatham mss. He voted with the Opposition on the Spanish convention in 1739 and the place bill in 1740, but did not stand in 1741. In 1747 he was brought in by his brother-in-law, Lord Sandwich, for Huntingdon vice Albert Nesbitt, who was brought in for Mitchell on Courtenay’s interest. He was described by Sandwich as a person ‘whose principles I can depend upon’, and was classed as a government supporter. Falling ill in the winter of that year,Sandwich to Pelham, 23 May and 29 Dec. 1747, Newcastle (Clumber) mss. he died soon after (buried 8 Mar. 1748).