ESSINGTON, John (1689-1729), of Wandsworth, Surr.

John EssingtonMisc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), v. 326-9. (not to be confused with the Member for Aylesbury 1710-15) was returned as a Whig at New Romney in 1727 with the Duke of Dorset’s ‘privity’.D. Papillon to Sir Philip Yorke, 1 Aug. 1727, Add. 35585, f. 71. Unseated on petition, he died on 8 Apr. 1729, ‘in Newgate where he was imprisoned for debt’.Hist. Reg. 1729, p. 24.