biography text
Soon after succeeding to the family estates, Shelburne bought the manors of Temple Wycombe, Loakes and Windsor, near Wycombe, which he contested unsuccessfully in 1702. Returned as a Whig for Great Marlow in 1715, he was absent from the division on the septennial bill, voted for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts, but did not vote on the peerage bill. In 1722 he was returned for Wycombe but did not stand again. He died 17 Apr. 1751, leaving estates in England and Ireland said to be worth £16,000 a year, besides £250,000 in the funds.
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