William Northey FRS (c. 1722 – 24 December 1770) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1747 to 1770.
[1] In 1747 Northey bought the prebend manor of Ivy House, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, which carried one of the two Parliamentary seats for Calne and was duly elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for Calne on 27 June 1747, holding the seat until 1761.
He was lastly elected MP for Great Bedwyn on 13 November 1768 and held the seat until his death in 1770.
[1][2] When the Wiltshire Militia was embodied on 8 November 1758 Northey was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel, and exercised the command on behalf of the colonel, Lord Bruce.
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