Bamber Gascoyne
Deceased Person
1758 – 1824
Who was Bamber Gascoyne?
Bamber Gascoyne of Childwell Hall, Lancashire was an eighteenth-century British politician. He was an ancestor of two British Prime Ministers, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and Arthur Balfour.
He was the son of Bamber Gascoyne and Mary Green.
He was Member of Parliament for Liverpool from 1780 to 1796. He was succeeded as MP for Liverpool by his brother Isaac.
He spoke in Parliament against the abolition of the slave trade, and led the opposition to the Sierra Leone settlement bill, which successfully incorporated the Sierra Leone Company in 1791.
He was married to Sarah Bridget Frances Price, born in 1767, daughter of Chase Price and Susan Glanvile. Their daughter Frances Mary Gascoyne married on 2 February 1821 as his first wife James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, who took her surname, and was the mother of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and the grandmother of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.
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