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Thomas Claughton
(1774 c.-1842)
LBT ID: ThClaugh1842B/BAP:   1774
DIED:   1842-03-08
SOURCES: DNB ["Thomas Legh Claughton"]; Gentleman's Magazine (April 1842) 452
Educated at Rugby, he was a Warrington solicitor and MP for Newton, Lancashire (1818-25) who agreed to purchase Newstead Abbey in 1812 and then paid the forfeit. He was the father of Thomas Legh Claughton (1808-1892), bishop of St Albans.
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