William Vansittart

William Vansittart
Member of Parliament
for Windsor
In office
27 March 1857 – 12 July 1865
Preceded bySamson Ricardo
Charles Grenfell
Succeeded byHenry Hoare
Henry Labouchère
Personal details
Born2 May 1813
Bhaugulpore
Died15 January 1878(1878-01-15) (aged 64)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Other political
affiliations		Liberal
Spouse(s)
Melanie Jenkins
​
(m. 1866)​

Henrietta Humphreys
​
​
(m. 1847; died 1852)​

Emily Leslie-Anstruther
​
​
(m. 1839; died 1844)​
ChildrenFour
Parent(s)Arthur Vansittart
Caroline Eden

William Vansittart (2 May 1813 – 15 January 1878)[1] was a British Conservative Party and Liberal Party politician.

Born in 1813, Vansittart was the son of Arthur and Caroline (née Eden) Vansittart. In 1839, he married Emily, daughter of Robert Leslie-Anstruther, and they had two children, Emily Eden (born 21 April 1840, Bhaugulpore,[2] died 27 May 1905[3]) and William Henry (born 1844), before she died in 1844 on return from India. He then remarried to Harriette, daughter of Ambrose Humphrys, on 2 December 1847,[4] and they had one child, Caroline Bretha (died 1919), before she also died in 1852. Thirdly, in 1866, he married Melanie, daughter of Sir Richard Jenkins, and they had a son: Charles Edward Bexley (born 1867)[3][5]

A liberal-conservative in politics, Vansittart was elected Conservative Party MP for Windsor at the 1857 general election and held the seat until 1865 when he sought re-election as a Liberal Party candidate, but failed.[6][7]

He was also part of the Honourable East India Company and a Deputy Lieutenant.[3][5]

He died in January 1878 from shock after receiving burns to his arm when a lint used to dress a wound to his arm caught fire.[8]

  1. ^ "Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)". Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs. 13 June 2017. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns - Births & Baptisms Transcription - findmypast (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b c The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval (2013). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume (reprint ed.). Heritage Books. pp. 275–276. ISBN 9780788418723. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  4. ^ Westminster Marriages Transcription - findmypast (subscription required)
  5. ^ a b "William Vansittart". The Peerage. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  6. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  7. ^ Disraeli, Benjamin (1982). Gunn, John Alexander Wilson; Wiebe, Melvin George (eds.). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859 (Illustrated ed.). University of Toronto Press. p. 31. ISBN 9780802087287. william vansittart 1813 1878.
  8. ^ "The Late Mr Vansittart". Reading Mercury. 26 January 1878. p. 5. Retrieved 3 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.