Philip Rashleigh (1689–1736)

Philip Rashleigh (1689–1736) of Menabilly, near Fowey, Cornwall, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1722.

Rashleigh was the eldest surviving son of Jonathan Rashleigh MP, of Menabilly and his second wife Jane Carew, a daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet of Antony, Torpoint, Cornwall.

[2] Rashleigh was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Liskeard at the 1710 general election.

He was a Tory and in 1715 a treasonable pamphlet was addressed to him which was seized on government orders in the post at Exeter.

[5] Rashleigh died unmarried on 12 August 1736, and his estates were inherited by his younger brother Jonathan.