UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 13 December 1767

Died: 3 March 1845

1st Baron Wynford - 5 June 1829

Knighted - 3 June 1819

Member of Privy Council - 25 May 1824

husband of Mary Anne Knapp

son of Thomas Best

son of Betty Draper

Crewkerne School

Wadham College, Oxford (1782 -)

Middle Temple (1784 -)

Attorney General	February 1816	1819
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords	1829

9 October 1812		Bridport	Tory	224	92.37
1817 Resignation of William Best on appointment as a Justice of Chester.