Hugh Fortescue (1665–1719)

Hugh Fortescue (2 June 1665 – December 1719) of Filleigh and Weare Giffard Hall in Devon and of Ebrington Manor[1] in Gloucestershire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1713.

Fortescue was the eldest son and heir of Arthur Fortescue (1622–1693) of Penwarne, Mevagissey, Cornwall and of Filleigh in Devon, and his wife Barbara Elford, a daughter of John Elford of Sheepstor in Devon.

[2] Fortescue was returned as Member of Parliament for Tregony at the 1689 English general election.

He was returned as MP for Lostwithiel at the 1710 British general election.

[4] He was not prominent in the House of Commons being jailed for absence on two occasions and as well as a number of non-attendances.