Whitmore Acton
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet (c. 1677 – 17 January 1731/32) was a British Member of Parliament.[1]
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He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and the Middle Temple. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father in 1716.
Acton lived at Aldenham Park, near Bridgnorth and held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1727–28.
Personal life
He married Elizabeth Gibbon, daughter of Matthew Gibbon of Putney, Surrey, a relation of the famous historian Edward Gibbon, and had the following children:Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712 – 20 November 1791)
- Elizabeth Acton (b. bef. 1730)
- Jane Acton (b. bef. 1732)
- Mary Acton (b. bef. 1732)
References
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- 1670s births
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- Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Members of the Middle Temple
- Baronets in the Baronetage of England
- Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
- British MPs 1710–1713
- High sheriffs of Shropshire
- Acton family