Michael Barne (politician)

Additionally, he was Commandant of the 7th Dragoons under the Duke of York in the Dutch Campaign of 1793-4 and in the Helder expedition of 1799.

[4] After his elder brother, Snowdon Barne, took up a Commission on the Custom Board in 1812, the seat he had held in the constituency of Dunwich fell vacant.

The Barne family had held this seat in their ‘pocket’ since 1764 and its dwindling population led to it becoming a notorious "Rotten Borough".

[11] He would spend the last years of his life concerned with maintaining the family's estates and financial interests, and spent his time either at Dunwich or in London.

[12] Michael Barne died on 19 June 1837 in Grosvenor Street, London,[13] and was buried on 8 July at Dunwich.