John Strutt (1727–1816)

John Strutt (/strʌt/; 1727 – 8 March 1816) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790.

[2] Strutt was for a long time averse to standing for Parliament though he had effective ascendancy over the Maldon constituency from the 1750s to 1807, which he used to elect his friends.

He achieved prominence by being on 12 Feb. 1779 the only Member to vote against thanking Admiral Keppel for his services, ‘for which he was much reviled’.

But there is no evidence of Strutt having wished for honours (that he was no snob is shown by his first, somewhat negative, reaction, in 1788, to his son's engagement to a daughter of the Duke of Leinster).

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