Michael Harvey (died 1748)

and Clifton Maybank, near Milborne Port, Dorset was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1717 and 1747.

Harvey was the only surviving son of Edward Harvey of Coombe and his first wife He married after a settlement dated 23 April 1715, Rebecca Wolstenholme, daughter of Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet, MP, of Edmonton, Middlesex.

He inherited the Clifton Maybank estates from the widow of his cousin, Michael Harvey MP, in 1717.

[1] Harvey, was initially declared elected as Tory Member of Parliament for Milborne Port at a by-election of 10 June 1717, but after considering a petition alleging gross bribery the House of Commons overturned the result and on 6 July 1717 his opponent was declared elected instead.

[1] Although Harvey succeeded to his father’s estate in 1736, he was financially ruined by the successive contests at Milborne Port.