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William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford (19 February 1798 – 28 February 1869), was a British peer.
Background
Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Jr. of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.
He married Jane, the daughter of William Thoyts of Sulhamstead House in Berkshire and his wife, Jane, the daughter & co-heiress of Abram Newman of Mount Bures, Essex, the famous London tea merchant. They lived together at Wynford House in Wynford Eagle, Dorset. Wynford had a London home at 5 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair.
Political career
Wynford sat as Member of Parliament for Mitchell (also known as St Michael's) between 1831 and 1832, when the constituency was disenfranchised through the Great Reform Act. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1845.
Personal life
Lord Wynford died in February 1869, aged 71, at 7 Park Place, St James', Middlesex, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William Draper Mortimer Best, 3rd Baron Wynford.
References
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Best