ORLEBAR, John (1697-1765), of Hinwick, Beds.

John Orlebar, like his father and grandfather a bencher of the Middle Temple, was descended from George Orlebar, who acquired Hinwick with Podington, Bedfordshire, through his wife in 1647.F. St. J. Orlebar, Orlebar Chron. 310. Returned as a Whig for Bedford in 1727, he voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. When in 1728 an attempt was made by the Whig members of the Bedford corporation to turn out their Tory recorder, Lord Bruce, by legal proceedings,John Bardolph to John Orlebar, 1728, Orlebar, 1728, Orlebar mss 1776, Beds. RO. the prospective vacancy was offered to Orlebar who replied to the mayor that ‘in case you succeed ... I shall very willingly accept the favour you offer me and cheerfully defray the expense of it,’Members of Bedford Corp. to John Orlebar, 22 Nov. 1728, and John Orlebar to the mayor, Nov. 1728, ibid. 1779, 1780. but nothing came of it. He did not stand again, was given a place in the excise in 1738, and died 19 Dec. 1765. A number of his letters, describing parliamentary proceedings 1739-42, are printed in vol. iii of Coxe’s Walpole.