Samuel Dashwood

Sir Samuel Dashwood JP (c. 1643 – 12 August 1705) was an English merchant and Tory politician. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1702.^[1]

The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Dashwood JP
Lord Mayor of London
In office 1702–1703
Preceded by	Sir William Gore
Succeeded by	Sir John Parsons
Member of Parliament for the City of London
In office 1685–1687
Preceded by	Sir William Prichard
Succeeded by	Sir William Turner
In office 1690–1695
Preceded by	Sir William Prichard
Succeeded by	Sir Peter Rich
Personal details
Born	c. 1643
Died	12 August 1705(1705-08-12) (aged 61–62) London, England
Political party	Tory
Spouse	Anne Smith ​ ​ (after 1670)​
Relations	Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet (brother) Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet (cousin)
Children	14
Parent(s)	Francis Dashwood Alice Sleigh

Early life

The son of Francis Dashwood, a London merchant, by his wife Alice Sleigh, he was a brother of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet, and cousin of Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet.^[2][3] His sister Sarah married Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke in 1665.

Career

Dashwood was elected Sheriff of London, and was also knighted, in 1683, and was a Member of Parliament for the City of London in 1685 and 1690.^[1][4]

Dashwood's father was a farmer of the excise, and he himself became a commissioner of excise in 1683.^[5] An alderman in 1687, he was removed by James II for refusing to countenance the suspension of the Corporation Act.^[6]

In 1702, a colonel in the Lieutenancy of the City, Dashwood was made a Justice of the Peace, based on his willingness to use judicial powers.^[6] In that year Dashwood was Lord Mayor of London, and entertained Queen Anne at the London Guildhall as part of the lavish show that he organised. It was authored by Elkanah Settle, and marked the final pageant of the old tradition.^[7][8]

Personal life

Portrait of his wife, Anne Dashwood (née Smith), by Peter Lely

On 17 May 1670, Dashwood was married to Anne Smith, a daughter of John Smith of Tedworth. Her brother was politician John Smith, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.^[9][10] Together, Samuel and Anne were the parents of four sons and ten daughters, including:

• Elizabeth Dashwood, who married Andrew Archer, MP for Warwickshire, in 1702,^[11]
• George Dashwood (1680–1758), MP for Stockbridge who married Katherine Bristow, a daughter of Robert Bristow, MP for Winchelsea.^[12]
• Jane Dashwood, who married William Phillipps, son of Sir Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon.^[13]
• Sophia Dashwood, who married Francis Lewis, MP for East Retford.^[14]
• Henrietta Dashwood (1687–1771), who married Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Baronet.^[15]
• Sarah Dashwood, who married Richard Crawley, Registrar of the Admiralty.^[16]
• Annabella Dashwood (d. 1771), who married Thomas Medley, of Buxted.^[17]

Samuel's heir was George, the fourth son but the oldest who survived his father. His commercial success had enabled him to buy properties in Buckinghamshire and Surrey, but he continued to live in the capital until his death on 12 August 1705. He was buried at St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate. He left an estate reportedly valued at £100,000, which was shared among his surviving two sons and five daughters.^[18]

Descendants

Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was a grandfather of Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer (1695–1768), and Henry Archer (1700–1768), who both served as MPs.^[19][20]

Through his daughter Jane, he was a grandfather of Ambrose Phillipps (c. 1707–1737), MP for Leicestershire.^[13]

Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Sir Thomas Sebright, 5th Baronet (1723–1761), who died unmarried and was succeeded by his brother, Lt.-Gen. Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet (1725–1794).^[15]

Through his daughter Sarah, he was a grandfather of John Crawley (1703–1767), MP for Marlborough.^[16]

Through his daughter Annabella, he was a grandfather of George Medley (1720–1796), MP for East Grinstead and Seaford.^[17]

References

1. "Dashwood, Sir Samuel (c.1643–1705), of Bishopsgate, London and Mortlake, Surr., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 26 May 2015.
2. Pollard, Albert Frederick (1901). "Dashwood, Francis" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3. Basil Duke Henning (1 January 1983). The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Boydell & Brewer. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-436-19274-6.
4. Gary S. De Krey (24 February 2005). London and the Restoration, 1659–1683. Cambridge University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-107-32068-0.
5. Gary S. De Krey (24 February 2005). London and the Restoration, 1659–1683. Cambridge University Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-107-32068-0.
6. Paula R. Backscheider (1 August 1992). Daniel Defoe: His Life. Taylor & Francis. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-8018-4512-3.
7. Walter Thornbury, "The Lord Mayors of London", in Old and New London: Volume 1 (London, 1878), pp. 396-416 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp396-416 [accessed 23 May 2015].
8. Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. G. Knight & Company. 1843. p. 453.
9. Joseph Lemuel Chester; Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London (1886). Allegations for marriage licences issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, 1543 to 1869. Harleian Society. p. 113.
10. Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom Etc. Fourth Edition, Carefully Corrected, and Continued to the Present Time. - London, H. Woodfall 1768. H. Woodfall. pp. 494–.
11. Burke, Bernard; John Burke (1866). Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 10. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
12. Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn. 1875. p. 146. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
13. Foster, Joseph; Chester, Joseph Lemuel (1887). London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869. Bernard Quaritch. p. 1055. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
14. "Lewis, Francis (c.1692–1744), of Stanford-upon-Soar, Notts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
15. Hearne, Thomas (1902). Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne. Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press. p. 254. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
16. Blaydes, Frederic Augustus (1889). Bedfordshire Notes and Queries. A. Ranson. p. 325. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
17. Society, Sussex Archaeological (1904). Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. Sussex Archaeological Society. p. 101. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
18. "Dashwood, George II (1680–1758), St. George's, Hanover Square, Mdx., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 26 May 2015.
19. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 188.
20. Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 10.

Civic offices
Preceded by Sir William Gore	Lord Mayor of London 1702–1703	Succeeded by Sir John Parsons