Walter Sneyd

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Sneyd (11 February 1752 – 23 June 1829), of Keele Hall was an English politician who served in the Parliament of Great Britain and as High Sheriff of Staffordshire.

Sir John Moore and granddaughter of Henry, Earl of Drogheda)[2] His paternal grandfather was Ralph Sneyd, MP for Staffordshire.

[1] He was admitted to Middle Temple in 1771 and held a commission in the Staffordshire Militia,[1] eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and being appointed Lt-Col Commandant of the Northern Regiment, Staffordshire Local Militia on 1 March 1809.

[5] His eldest son Ralph inherited Keele Hall and rebuilt it, as it is today, to the design of Anthony Salvin at a cost of about 80,000 pounds.

[9] He died childless in 1949, and his successor, Maj. Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard-Sneyd[a] (the son of Ralph's elder sister Louisa Georgina (née Sneyd) Howard and Robert Mowbray Howard MP, a son of Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle) died the following year, which reduced the family fortune by three quarters due to the doubling of death duties going to the Exchequer.