Andrew Bayntun Rolt

British Member of Parliament
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Quick Facts

IntroBritish Member of Parliament
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
isPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Death12 August 1816
Family
Mother:Mary Poynter
Father:Edward Bayntun Rolt
Children:Mary Barbara Bayntun-Rolt Andrew Bayntun
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Biography

Sir Andrew Bayntun-Rolt, 2nd Baronet (c. 1740–1816) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1786. .

Baynton-Rolt was the eldest son of Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Poynter of Herriard, Hampshire. He married firstly Lady Mary Alicia Coventry daughter of George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, on 28 June 1772. She became involved in an adulterous relationship with John Allen Cooper and the couple were divorced on 24 June 1783. He married secondly Anna Maria Maude. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 3 January 1800.

Bayntun-Rolt was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Weobley on the interest of Lord Weymouth at a by-election on 31 March1780. He was returned unopposed again at the ensuing general election of 1780, and again in 1784. There is no record of his having spoken in the House. He appears to have been used as a placeholder as he resigned his seat in April 1786 when Weymouth's eldest son was old enough to sit for Parliament.

Bayntun Rolt died on 12 August 1816. He had no surviving male issue and the title became extinct on his death in 1816. His estate went to his only surviving daughter

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