About Whitmore Acton
Lived 1678 – 1732 (aged 53–54). Whitmore Acton was a politician.
Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet (c. 1677 – 17 January 1731/32) was a British Member of Parliament.
He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and the Middle Temple. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father in 1716.
Acton lived at Aldenham Park, near Bridgnorth and held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1727–28.
Personal life He married Elizabeth Gibbon, daughter of Matthew Gibbon of Putney, Surrey, a relation of the famous historian Edward Gibbon, and had the following children: Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712 – 20 November 1791) Elizabeth Acton (b. bef. 1730) Jane Acton (b. bef. 1732) Mary Acton (b. bef. 1732)
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Whitmore Acton was born in 1678.
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Whitmore Acton died on 9 January 1732.
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