William Moffat (MP)

William Moffat (7 March 1737 – 12 January 1822)^[1] was an English banker, merchant and politician.

He was involved in several banking partnerships in London, and was also a merchant. By 1790 he lived in Bloomsbury, and in 1799 he bought the Painshill estate in Surrey, but sold it a few years later and lived in Wimbledon.^[2]

He was elected at the 1802 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Winchelsea in Sussex, but was not re-elected in 1806.^[2]

References

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
^ ^a ^b Brown, Richard; Collinge, J. M. (1986). R. Thorne (ed.). "MOFFAT, William (1737-1822), of Painshill and Wimbledon, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820,. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 9 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Moffat

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Devaynes William Currie	Member of Parliament for Winchelsea 1802 – 1806 With: Robert Ladbroke	Succeeded by Calverley Bewicke Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, Bt

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[1] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)

[histparl-william-moffat-2] Brown, Richard; Collinge, J. M. (1986). R. Thorne (ed.). "MOFFAT, William (1737-1822), of Painshill and Wimbledon, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820,. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 9 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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