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William Ralph Cartwright
William Ralph Cartwright (30 March 1771 – 4 January 1847) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1797 and 1846.
==Life==
Cartwright was the son of Thomas Cartwright of Aynhoe Park and his wife Mary Catherine Desaguilliers.〔(Descendants of Margaret Dymoke )〕 In 1793 a highwayman was transported for robbing him of £32 10s worth of goods and money.〔(Bookhams - Two hundred years of Justice )〕
In 1797 on the retirement of Thomas Powys, he was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire.〔(R. G. Thorne ''The House of Commons, 1790-1820, Volume 4'' p297 )〕 He held the seat until 1831. In the 1832 general election he was elected MP for South Northamptonshire and held the seat until he resigned in 1846.〔(Leigh Rayment )〕
Cartwright was Lieutenant-Colonel in the local militia during the Napoleonic wars, and was responsible for the Brackley Battalion.〔( Aynho - Minutes of April 2009 meeting - The Cartwright papers )〕 In the time of agricultural depression and increasing population, Cartwright helped settle many dozens of his surplus agricultural labourers in Wellington County, Ontario from the late 1820s until his death. He ran up huge debts, mainly from playing the stock market, which he did unsuccessfully.〔
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