About Richard Grantham
Lived 1677 – 1723 (aged 45–46). Richard Grantham was a politician.
Richard Grantham (1677–1723), of Goltho Hall, Lincolnshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1722.
Grantham was the eldest surviving son of Vincent Grantham of Goltho Hall, Lincolnshire, and his wife Margaret Fanshaw, daughter of Sir Richard Fanshaw of Ware Park, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Eton College in 1690. He married Elizabeth and had no children.
Grantham was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln at the 1710 general election, but was defeated in 1713.
Grantham died on 28 January 1723.
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