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William Strahan

Profile & Legacies Summary

1715 - 1785

Biography

London printer and publisher, and MP for Malmesbury (1774-1780) and Wootton Bassett (1780-1784). He was trustee of the marriage settlement of James Cave of Woodford and his wife Mary formerly Mary Hurt (nee Hooper) in 1753 under which Mary Hurt's 3/6th's share of the estate [and enslaved people] of Frances Bladen on Nevis was placed in trust to pay the rents and profits to such person as Mary Cave might direct for her life.


Sources

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/strahan-william-1715-85 [accessed 16/07/2020]; Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. I p. 51.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Malmesbury Wiltshire
1774 - 1780
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Wootton Bassett Wiltshire
1780 - 1784

Addresses (1)

Little New Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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