Philip Wenman, 7th Viscount Wenman
Philip Wenman, 7th Viscount Wenman (18 April 1742 – 26 March 1800), styled The Honourable Philip Wenman until 1760, was a British landowner and politician.
Wenman was the son of Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman, by Sophia, eldest daughter and co-heir of James Herbert, of Tythorpe, Oxfordshire. Thomas Wenman was his younger brother. In 1760, aged 18, he succeeded in the viscountcy on the early death of his father. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords.[1] In 1768 he was instead returned to the British House of Commons as a Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, a seat he held for the next 28 years.[2]
Lord Wenman married Lady Eleanor, fifth daughter of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon, in 1766. He died in March 1800, aged 57, when the viscountcy became extinct.[1]
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| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire 1768–1796 With: Lord Charles Spencer 1768–1790 Marquess of Blandford 1790–1796 |
Succeeded by Lord Charles Spencer John Fane |
| Peerage of Ireland | ||
| Preceded by | Viscount Wenman 1760–1800 |
Extinct |
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- 1742 births
- 1800 deaths
- Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
- British MPs 1768–74
- British MPs 1774–80
- British MPs 1780–84
- British MPs 1784–90
- British MPs 1790–96
- Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
