William Glanville (Hythe MP)

William Glanville (c.1686–1766), of St Clere, Kent was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 38 years from 1728 to 1766.

[1] Glanville contested Bletchingley unsuccessfully on the death of his elder brother George Evelyn in 1724.

In 1733 he defended Sir Robert Sutton and unsuccessfully opposed a bill for preventing 'the pernicious practice of stock-jobbing'.

His post as Commissioner of Irish Revenue became inconsistent with a seat in Parliament under the Place Act 1742 and he surrendered it in 1747 to a friend, who paid him half the income.

He represented Hythe for nearly 40 years, in spite of complaints that he failed to make gifts ‘for the public good of the town’.