Arthur Annesley was born in 1760 and baptised on 16 August 1760, the eldest son of Arthur Annesley of Bletchington, Oxfordshire, who died in February 1773, and his wife, Elizabeth Baldwin. He married, on 1 February 1785, Catherine Hardy, daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, and had the following children together:
He married, 12 August 1808, Eleanor, daughter of Henry Stafford O"Brien of Blatherwycke Park and had issue.
The Right Honourable Arthur Annesley, tenth Viscount Valentia (1785 - 1863). He inherited the Viscountcy of Valentia from a distant cousin. Reverend Charles Annesley Francis Annesley (1787 - 1863).
Catherine Elizabeth Annesley (1791 - 1759).
John Evelyn Boscawen, Canon of Canterbury, and had issue. Barbara Caroline Annesley (1797 - 1883).
Mary Annesley (1800 - 1827) married on 7 August 1826, the Review John Tyrwhitt-Drake, Rector of Amersham.
Lucy Susan Martha Annesley (born 1801).
Francis Annesley (died 1811). James Annesley (died 1828). George Martin Annesley (died 1824).
Died while in the military service of the East India Company.
Charlotte Annesley (died 1806). Annesley served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire for a year, beginning in 1784.
In 1790, the Honorary Peregrine Bertie, brother of the fourth Earl of Abingdon, died shortly after being elected Member of Parliament for Oxford earlier that year.
The freemen of the borough sponsored Annesley, who was connected with Lord Abingdon. The election was a relatively easy victory for Annesley, who did not spend on it, and whose only opposition, in the form of George Ogilvie, came from a minority of freemen and has been described as "feeble and opportunist".
He supported the Government of William Pitt the younger, but left relatively mark on Parliament"s history, being recorded voting on only a handful of occasions, including on the Test Acting in Scotland. He was defeated at the 1796 election by a London merchant, Henry Peters, who is estimated to have spent £10,000 on the election.
lieutenant is possible that it was Annesley who supported John Ingram Lockhart to stand (unsuccessfully) in 1802 in an effort to oust Peters.
He never returned to Parliament, although he remained active in local politics, in 1806, for instance, he opposed the Duke of Marlborough"s candidate for Oxford. He died on 20 January 1841, aged 80. Bibliography
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