Family and Education
b. c. 1670, 1st s. of Lawrence StanyanHMC Downshire, i. 319. of Monken Hadley, Mdx., merchant, farmer and commr. of the revenue [I], by Dorothy, da. and coh. of Henry Knapp of Woodcote, or Rawlins, in South Stoke, Oxon., sis. of Mary, w. of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Bt., M.P., of Stowe, Bucks., and aunt of Richard Temple, M.P., 1st Visct. Cobham. unm. suc. fa. 1725.O. G. Knapp, Hist. Fam. of Knapp, 83-87.
Offices Held
Sec. of embassy to Sir William Trumbull at Constantinople 1690 – 91, to the Earl of Manchester at Venice 1697 – 98, and Paris 1699 – 1700; clerk to Privy Council extraordinary 1699; envoy extraordinary to Switzerland 1705 – 14, and to the Grisons 1707 – 14; special commr. to mediate between the Emperor and Savoy 1712 – 13; ld. of Admiralty 1714 – 17; envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Emperor 1716 – 18; clerk in ordinary to Privy Council 1717 – 20; ambassador to Turkey 1717 – 30; commr. of privy seal Jan.-June 1731.
Main residence: St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
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Commons 1715-1754
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STANYAN, Abraham (c.1670-1732)
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