TYLNEY LONG (formerly LONG), Sir James, 7th Bt. (1737-94), of Draycot Cerne, Wilts.

Tylney Long claimed that he had ‘never been ambitious’ of a county seat, when he was about to come in for Wiltshire on a vacancy in 1788. His father and other forebears had been county Members. He had sat for two Wiltshire boroughs for 26 years, without making any reported speech in the House, and was no longer anxious to be in Parliament. He acceded to the wishes of the Deptford Club, so as to help preserve the peace of the county.Swindon Central Lib. Goddard mss, Tylney Long to Goddard, 3 Nov. 1788. Since 1784, considered well disposed to Pitt’s ministry, he had been an inactive Member, and apart from being listed among opponents of repeal of the Test Act in Scotland in 1791 he made no mark in the Parliament of 1790. On 4 Mar. 1793 he was granted leave of absence for ill health. He died 28 Nov. 1794, aged 57, in the ‘constant exercise of virtues more solid than specious’. The inheritance of a substantial fortune in 1784 had not perceptibly altered his simple lifestyle.Gent. Mag. (1794), ii. 1154. It was squandered by his eventual heiress’s husband William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley.