John Mordaunt (MP)

John Mordaunt (MP)

John Mordaunt (c. 1709 – 1767), British soldier and politician, was the second son of John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt and Frances Powlett.

He was a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards from 1726 to 1736. He married Mary Howe (d. 1749), the daughter of Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe, in November 1735, and later Elizabeth Hamilton, but left no children. In 1745, he rejoined the Army to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Horse.

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