James Brudenell (c.1687–1746), of Luffenham,[a] Rutland, was a British courtier, office holder and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1746.
They enjoyed an unruly time there and while they were still in Rome, the Duke of Shrewsbury was asked to castigate Brudenell for neglecting his studies, and he may have been instrumental in converting the brothers to Anglicanism.
Their guardian, Robert Constable, 3rd Earl of Dunbar, ordered them back to England in the autumn of 1704 but instead, they went on to Venice where Brudenell developed smallpox.
[1] He was defeated at Chichester at the 1715 general election, but was brought in by his friend, Lord Lymington, as MP for Andover at a by-election on 1 April 1715.
At the 1734 general election he stood again at Chichester as the nominee of his nephew, the 2nd Duke of Richmond and headed the poll.