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Anthony James Keck (c1740 – 1782) was an English politician. He was born in Stoughton, Leicestershire and educated at Eton, St John's College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester from 1755 to 1756, also for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1768 to 1774. He lived at Stoughton Grange until he moved to Lancashire in 1768 and died aged 42 years, on 28 February 1782, and is buried at St Mary and All Saints Church in Stoughton, Leicestershire.〔Leicestershire Rural Partnership (2009), "Stoughton - Section J - Memorials inside the church", Ref No. J1, http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/stoughton/sectionj-insidethechurch.html〕 along with numerous members of his family and descendants including his son (who was also a politician for Leicestershire), ==Family== His grandfather was Sir Anthony Keck. His father was also Anthony Keck of Lincolns Inn and his mother was Anne Busby of Beaumont, daughter of William Busby and Catherine Beaumont his wife.〔https://archive.org/stream/gentlemansmagaz09unkngoog/gentlemansmagaz09unkngoog_djvu.txt〕 His father was a sergeant-at-law, who worked with Thomas Vernon. Anthony James Keck, married Elizabeth Legh (the second daughter of Peter Legh of Lyme and Martha Bennet of Salthrop House), and by her had six children as follows: There are marble plaques in remembrance for all the Keck family in the church of St Mary and All Saints in Stoughton.〔 Elizabeth Legh remarried after the death of Anthony James Keck to William Bathurst Pye-Bennet and inherited the Broad Hinton estate (from the new marriage) and Salthrop estate (from her mother Martha Legh (née Bennet)) as well as the estates belonging to Norborne Family of Bremhill, Wiltshire.〔http://www.myfamilysilver.com/crestfinder-search/Bennett-family-crest?name=norborne〕〔http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_brhint_a.htm〕 The estates then passed to her surviving daughter Elizabeth Calley (née Keck). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony James Keck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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