William Northmore

William Northmore (1690–1735), of Northmore House, Okehampton and Cleve, near Exeter, Devon, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1735.

William Hutton, sometime rector of Northlew, near Okehampton, and of St. Kew, Cornwall.

In 1713 he inherited Cleve from his uncle and father-in-law, who held many of the Monck estates in mortgage and directed in his will that they be sold for the benefit of his nephew and his wife.

He was returned again at the 1715 British general election and voted against the Government in all recorded divisions.

Northmore resumed his seat at Okehampton at the 1727 British general election, voting with the Opposition against the Hessians in 1730 and the Excise Bill in 1733.

Northmore House, built in 1685 is now the Town Hall in Okehampton