William SWANTON

• Name	William SWANTON
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1673	Salisbury, Wiltshire
  	MP. Like so many of his family, Swanton became a lawyer, succeeding Richard Colman as recorder of Salisbury in 1668 and as Member in 1673. He was moderately active, being named to 22 committees, of which the most important were for preventing abuses in elections in 1673 and illegal exactions in 1677. In the latter year he registered his pedigree at the heralds? visitation of Wiltshire. Shaftesbury marked him as a ?worthy? Member of the Cavalier Parliament, but he is not known to have stood again, though he was sufficiently prominent locally to be removed from the commission of the peace in 1680 as an exclusionist. He died on 18 July 1681, and was buried in the Cathedral. His son Francis sat for Salisbury as a Tory from 1715 to his death.
  Will written	20 Jul 1679
  Person ID	I487	Westover
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2014

  
  

  Father	Francis SWANTON,   b. CIR 1605   d. 1661 (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Prudence POVEY
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth GAUNTLETT   d. 26 Feb 1669
  Marriage	5 Feb 1648	West Harnham, Wiltshire
  Children	1. Francis SWANTON   d. 1721   2. Prudence SWANTON,   b. 10 May 1658   d. Aft 20 Jul 1679 (Age > 21 years)   3. Jane SWANTON   d. Aft 20 Jul 1679   4. William SWANTON   d. Aft 20 Jul 1679
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Dulcibella WHITWELL   d. 21 Jun 1678
  Marriage	Aug 1671	West Harnham, Wiltshire
  Family ID	F224	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2014