Mark Singleton (politician)

Mark Singleton (1762 – 17 July 1840) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain as an MP for the borough of Eye from 1796 to 1799, in the Irish House of Commons in 1800 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Carysfort in County Wicklow,[1] and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as an MP for Eye from 1807 to 1820.[2]

Singleton was the third son of Dublin lawyer Sydenham Singleton (formerly Fowke) and his wife Elizabeth Whyte, only daughter of the Dublin attorney Mark Whyte.[3][4] He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn. In 1785 and eloped with Lady Mary Cornwallis, daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, but her father soon endorsed the marriage.[5]

Despite qualifying as a barrister, Singleton turned to the British Army, becoming an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1782. He later served as a major in the Suffolk volunteer cavalry, and a cornet in the Middlesex yeomanry.[5]

Singleton owed his career to the patronage of his father-in-law. After a period as a socialite, Cornwallis's influence secured Singleton's parliamentary seats and his appointment in 1795 as Storekeeper of Ordnance.[5]

References

Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
For the Whyte family see Pilton House, Pilton
The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, July 1753, p.384
Stokes, Winifred (1986). Thorne (ed.). "SINGLETON, Mark (1762-1840), of Wimbledon, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790–1820. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 20 June 2014.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mark Singleton

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Viscount Brome William Cornwallis	Member of Parliament for Eye 1796–1799 With: William Cornwallis	Succeeded by James Cornwallis William Cornwallis
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Robert Aldridge Charles Osborne	Member of Parliament for Carysfort 1799–1800 With: Charles Osborne	Parliament of Ireland abolished
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hon. Henry Wellesley James Cornwallis	Member of Parliament for Eye 1807–1820 With: Hon. Henry Wellesley to 1809 Charles Arbuthnot 1809–1812 Sir William Garrow 1812–1817 Sir Robert Gifford from 1817	Succeeded by Sir Miles Nightingall Sir Robert Gifford
Political offices
Preceded by John Clater Aldridge	Storekeeper of the Ordnance 1795–1806	Succeeded by John McMahon
Preceded by John McMahon	Storekeeper of the Ordnance 1807–1829	Succeeded by Frederick Trench

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[1] Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

[2] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)

[3] For the Whyte family see Pilton House, Pilton

[4] The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, July 1753, p.384

[histparl-mark-singleton-d1845-5] Stokes, Winifred (1986). Thorne (ed.). "SINGLETON, Mark (1762-1840), of Wimbledon, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790–1820. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 20 June 2014.