Bamber Gascoyne (the elder)

Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1725–1791), was an 18th-century English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1761 and 1786.

After his education at Felsted School, he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1743.

[2] Gascoyne served as member of Parliament for several constituencies including Maldon (1761–1763), Midhurst (1765–1768), and Truro (1774–1784).

He was the father of Bamber Gascoyne (junior) and Isaac Gascoyne, and an ancestor of TV quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne.

[6] This article about a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (1707–1800) representing an English constituency is a stub.

Bamber Gascoyne (1725–1791) was a Lord of the Admiralty and is represented in this cartoon as the two-faced man on the right. [ 1 ]