About Cleave More
Lived 1664 – 1730 (aged 65). Cleave More was an English politician.
Sir Cleave More, 2nd Baronet (5 March 1664 – 1730), of Bank Hall, Walton, Lancashire, was a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1709 to 1710.
More was the fifth, but eldest surviving son of Sir Edward More, 1st Baronet, of Bank Hall Walton and his wife Dorothy Fenwick, daughter of Sir William Fenwick of Meldon, Northumberland. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in October 1678. He was educated at Westminster School; and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1682. In 1691, he married Anne Edmunds, daughter. of John Edmunds of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire.
More died at St Anne's, Aldersgate, in London on 3 March 1730 leaving one son, Joseph, who succeeded to the baronetcy.
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English Member of Parliament (1664-1730)
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