CHURCHILL, Horatio (1759-1817), of Lower Grosvenor Street, Mdx.

Churchill, like his father and grandfather, combined a military career with parliamentary service, but sat in only one Parliament. His seat was in the pocket of his uncle Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, who left him £500 in his will (1797).Horace Walpole Corresp. (Yale ed.), xi, 264; xxx. 375; Add. 36505, f. 34. He gave silent support to government, voting for Pitt’s assessed taxes, 4 Jan. 1798. In 1802, when he was a competitor for the lieutenant-governorship of Dover Castle, it was thought that he might have succeeded there as a ministerial candidate; but Pitt (as lord warden) while acknowledging Churchill’s pretensions, pressed the candidature of William Huskisson.The Times, 8 June; E. Suff. RO, Tomline mss, Rose to bp. of Lincoln, 11 July 1802. Churchill resumed his military career and died 22 Sept. 1817.