William Newland (MP)

William Newland (c. 1685–1738), of Gatton, Surrey and St James's Park, Westminster, was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1738.

Newland was baptized on 9 March 1685, the third but eldest surviving son of Sir George Newland, a wealthy scrivener of London, and his wife Rebecca Turgis, daughter of Edward Turgis, Draper, of London.

[1] He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 13 May 1703, aged 17[2] and was also admitted at Inner Temple in 1703.

He married Martha Shepeard (died 1724), daughter of Edmund Shephard, Painter-Stainer, of Fleet Street, London on 25 July 1710.

At the first opportunity after coming of age, Newlands was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Gatton at the 1710 general election.