Ambrose Manaton (1648–1696) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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variously between 1678 and 1696. Manaton was the son of

Ambrose Manaton Ambrose Manaton (1589 – 1 June 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1624 and 1640. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War. Manaton was the second son of Peter Manaton of Trecarrell in ...

of Trecarrell and his second wife Jane Mapowder, daughter of Narcissus Mapowder of Holsworthy Devon. He was admitted at

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in 1666 and at

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in 1667.David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley ''The House of Commons, 1690-1715, Volume 2''
/ref> In 1678 Manaton was elected Member of Parliament for Newport (Cornwall) and held the seat until 1681. He was also mayor of

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from 1679 to 1680. In 1689 he was elected MP for

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. In 1695 he stood at both Camelford and

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. He sat again for Camelford, but petitioned against his defeat at Tavistock. In March 1696 he was seated for Tavistock and then resigned from Camelford. Manaton showed frequent ill-health in his parliamentary absences in the 1690s and died at the age of 48. Manaton married firstly Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of William Kelly of Kilworthy on 29 October 1674, and secondly Rachel Carew, daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet on 23 October 1690. A portrait of Rachel Carew at

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near Saltash was the inspiration behind he character in the novel ''

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'' by

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1648 births 1696 deaths Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn 17th-century English landowners English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 Members of the Parliament of England for Tavistock Members of the Parliament of England for Newport (Cornwall) Members of the Parliament of England for Camelford {{Devon-stub