William Chetwynd

William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven (25 November 1721 – 12 November 1791) was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1747 to 1754.

Early life

Chetwynd was born on 25 November 1721 and was baptised on 21 December 1721 at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. He was the eldest of two sons and four daughters of William Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd and the former Honora Baker. His father was an MP and diplomat who served as British Resident Minister at Genoa and, later, Master of the Mint. His mother was the daughter of William Baker, Consul at Algiers in 1715.

Upon his father's death on 3 April 1770, he succeeded as the 4th Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven as well as the 4th Baron Rathdowne, His sister Mary Chetwynd married Rev. Hon. Richard Henry Roper (son of the 8th Baron Teynham).

Personal life On 28 October 1751, he married Susannah Cope, daughter of Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet, MP, and Mary Jenkinson (the third daughter of Sir Robert Jenkinson). Together, they were the parents of: Hon. Anderlechtia Clarissa Chetwynd (1765–1855), who married, as his second wife, Lord Robert Seymour, son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford and Lady Isabella Fitzroy (a daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, and thus descended in the illegitimate line from King Charles II), in 1806.