Bamber Gascoyne (the elder)

Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1725–1791), was an 18th-century English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1761 and 1786.

Bamber Gascoyne (1725–1791) was a Lord of the Admiralty and is represented in this cartoon as the two-faced man on the right.^[1]

Gascoyne was the son of Sir Crisp Gascoyne and Margaret Bamber. After his education at Felsted School, he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1743.^[2]

Gascoyne served as member of Parliament for several constituencies including Maldon (1761–1763), Midhurst (1765–1768), and Truro (1774–1784).^[3] From 1779 to 1782 he was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in the administration of Lord North.^[4]

He married Mary Green, daughter of Isaac Green, a Lancashire lawyer, and his wife Mary Aspinwall. He was the father of Bamber Gascoyne (junior) and Isaac Gascoyne, and an ancestor of TV quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne. ^[5] He was a great-grandfather of Frederick Gascoyne.^[6]