John Sawbridge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  from 1768 to 1780.

Sawbridge was the eldest son of John Sawbridge of Olantigh and his wife Elizabeth Wanley, daughter of George Wanley.

Sawbridge was elected as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Hythe

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 at the 1768 general election

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, and held the seat until 1774. At the 1774 general election

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 he contested two seats: he was defeated in Hythe, but was elected as one of the 4 MPs for the City of London

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. He was defeated in London at the general election in September 1780, but one of his successors, John Kirkman

John Kirkman

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, who died on the day when the polls closed and had been returned posthumously. Sawbridge was returned without a contest at the resulting by-election in November 1780, and was re-elected in 1784

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and 1790

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, holding the seat until his death on 21 February 1795, aged 62.

He was a Sheriff of London in 1770 and elected Lord Mayor of London

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 in 1775 in succession to John Wilkes

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Sawbridge died aged 62. Sawbridge had married firstly on 15 November 1763 Mary Diana Bridgeman, daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet

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. She died without issue in 1764 and he married secondly Anne Stephenson daughter of Sir William Stephenson. His son Samuel Elias Sawbridge

Samuel Elias Sawbridge

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 was Member of Parliament

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 for Canterbury

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