Thomas Winnington (1696–1746)

When Henry Pelham became Prime Minister in 1743, he appointed Winnington Paymaster General of the Forces, the post he himself had held in the previous administration (although unlike Pelham, Winnington was not accorded a seat in the Cabinet); he held this post for the remaining two-and-a-half years of his life.

[2] The affair provoked a duel but eventually ended shortly before he died after a quarrel related to the Jacobite cause.

[3] The Stanford Court estate subsequently passed to his cousin who became Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet.

The Elizabethan mansion of Stanford Court was burnt on 5 December 1882, and the valuable books and manuscripts in the old library were destroyed.

[4] Stanford Court was rebuilt and remained the family seat until sold by Sir Francis Winnington, 6th Baronet in 1949.