Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality. His second marriage was the s
Sir Thomas Hanmer.
Hanmer was born at Bettisfield in North Wales
Trans; in alleviation of poverty and old age Baronet Thomas Hanmer built and endowed AD 1722
Hanmer's first wife, Isabella, Dowager Duchess of Grafton, with her son, Charles, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death in 1743. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet
…government composed entirely of Whigs. The House of Commons was dissolved in January 1715, and Hanmer was not put forward for re-election: in his stead Spencer Compton (later 1st Earl of Wilmington and Prime Minister) was elected Speaker on 17 March 1715, although Hannmer continued to serve as an MP until 1727. The…
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, c. 1715
Portrait of Spencer Compton, by Godfrey Kneller, c. 1710
Compton Place, Eastbourne, in 2009
Retuched Painting of Robert Walpole