About Henry Archer
Lived 1700 – 1768. Henry Archer was a British politician.
Henry Archer (bp 18 November 1700 – 16 March 1768) of Hale, Hampshire was a British Member of Parliament.
Early life He was the second son of Andrew Archer of Umberslade Hall in Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire and his wife Elizabeth Dashwood (a daughter of Sir Samuel Dashwood, Lord Mayor of London in 1702). His elder brother was Thomas Archer.
Henry was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford before proceeding to study law at the Middle Temple and the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1726.
Personal life On 22 December 1743, Archer married Lady Elizabeth Montagu (d. 1789), a daughter of George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax and Lady Mary Lumley (a daughter of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarborough).
Archer died on 16 March 1768, aged 67.
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