Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh baronet

(1767-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sebright, John Saunders, Sir, 1767-1846 DNB: Sebright, Sir John Saunders, seventh baronet (1767–1846), politician and agriculturist LBT ID: JoSebri1846 VIAF ID: 6414873 LOC ID: n86084766	B/BAP: 1767-05-23 DIED: 1846-04-15
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (July 1846) 93; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Son of the sixth baronet (d. 1794), he was educated at Westminster School and after military service was an independent Whig MP for Hertfordshire (1807-34). Maria Edgeworth described him as “quite a new character ... strong head, and warm heart, and oddity enough for ten.”
REFERENCES TO Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh baronet: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 22 January 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 2 March 1829 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 4 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. VIII: 1829 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818