Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet

Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet (19 April 1721 – 18 January 1772)^[1] was a British politician and baronet.

He was the only son of Sir Henry Maynard, 3rd Baronet and his wife Catherine Gunter, daughter of George Gunter.^[2] In 1738, he succeeded his father as baronet.^[3] Maynard entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Essex in 1759, representing the constituency until 1772.^[4]

On 13 August 1751, he married Charlotte Bisshopp, second daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet, and by her he had four children, three sons and one daughter.^[5] His oldest son Charles succeeded to the baronetcy, and by a special remainder also as Viscount Maynard in 1775.^[6]

References

1. "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Retrieved 19 April 2009.
2. Collins, Arthur (1812). Sir Egerton Brydges, ed. Collin's Peerage of England. vol. VI. London: T. Bensley. p. 289.
3. Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p. 326.
4. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Essex". Retrieved 19 April 2009.
5. Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson, ed. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. II. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 469.
6. Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 155.