William Noel (1695–1762)

William Noel (19 March 1695 – 8 December 1762) was an English barrister, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 35 years from 1722 to 1757.

Noel was the second son of Sir John Noel, 4th Baronet, of Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, and his wife Mary Clobery, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Clobery of Bradstone, Devon, and was born on 19 March 1695 at Kirkby Mallory, Sparkenhoe Hundred, Leicestershire.

[1] At a by-election on 24 October 1722, Noel was returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Stamford, on the interest of the 8th Earl of Exeter, from whom he received a yearly pension for dealing with his accounts.

[2] In December 1731, with Nicholas Fazakerley and Thomas Bootle, he defended Richard Francklin, a bookseller who was tried before Chief-justice Lord Raymond for publishing a libel in The Craftsman.

[4] Through Lord Hardwicke's influence Noel succeeded Thomas Birch as a justice of the common pleas in March 1757, when he retired from parliament, but retained his post in Chester.