TYRWHITT, Sir John, 5th Bt. (?1663-1741), of Stainfield, Lincs.

Descended from an old Lincolnshire family seated at Stainfield since the sixteenth century, Tyrwhitt is described as ‘of good natural parts but debauched’.Her. and Gen. ii. 126. Returned for Lincoln as a Whig on his family’s interest in 1715, he voted with the Administration on the septennial bill in 1716, but against them on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts in 1719. He was classed by Sunderland as ‘doubtful’ in a list drawn up before the peerage bill, and to be spoken to by Newcastle and Craggs, but he voted against it. Unsuccessful for Lincoln in 1727, he regained his seat at a by-election in 1728, but no further votes of his are recorded. He died November 1741.