HARTLEY, Winchcombe Henry (?1740-94), of Bucklebury, Berks. and Little Sodbury, Glos.

Hartley owned large estates in Berkshire and Gloucestershire, and was returned for Berkshire in 1776 and 1780 without a contest. In politics he followed his brother and consistently opposed North’s Administration. He ‘sometimes speaks’, wrote the Public Ledger in 1779, ‘which he had better let alone’; his speeches, though not as long as those of his half-brother, are flat and empty.

Hartley voted against Shelburne’s peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783, and for Fox’s East India bill, 27 Nov. 1783. He voted for Pitt’s scheme of parliamentary reform, 7 May 1783. In 1784 he was defeated in Berkshire; he also stood for Gloucestershire, but retired after the first day’s poll.

He died 12 Aug. 1794, aged 54.