Wardell Westby

Wardell George Westby (died 1756), of Ravenfield, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1731.

John Darcy on 30 May 1723, on which occasion his father gave up to him the Ravenfield estate, which had been in the family since the early seventeenth century.

[1] At the 1727 British general election Westby was returned as Member of Parliament for Malton on the Wentworth Woodhouse interest.

[3] He died on 9 December 1756, leaving one daughter who married a cousin of the Earl of Egmont in 1750.

Westby's widow died in Great Marlborough Street on 10 February 1760, and of his daughter it was said ‘Let the remainer of her unhappy story be left in oblivion’.