Henry Wallop (1743? – August 1794) was a British soldier and politician, the second son of

John Wallop, Viscount Lymington John Wallop, Viscount Lymington (3 August 1718 – 19 November 1749) was a British politician, styled Hon. John Wallop from 1720 to 1743. Early life The eldest son of John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington, Wallop was educated at Winchester Scho ...

. Wallop was commissioned as a lieutenant and captain in the

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in 1762. On the death of

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, Member of Parliament for

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in 1764, Wallop's elder brother,

John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth (29 June 1742 – 16 May 1797), styled Hon. John Wallop from 1743 to 1749 and Viscount Lymington from 1749 to 1762, was a British nobleman. He was the son of John Wallop, Viscount Lymington and his wife Cathe ...

, agreed not to use his interest in the by-election in exchange for the post of

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to the

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for Henry.

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recommended him to

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, but the King declined to interfere with his brother's appointments to that office. However, on 24 August 1765, Wallop was appointed a Royal

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in place of Henry Seymour, an office he held until 1771. On 29 March 1768, he was promoted to a captaincy in the

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. In the 1768 election, he was returned for

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by his brother, who had inherited an electoral interest there from their mother. He had little recorded Parliamentary activity, although he was set down as favoring the

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(but absent for the vote) and in favor of the North Ministry before the 1774 election. However, he did not stand for Parliament again and died a bachelor in August 1794.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallop, Henry 1740s births 1794 deaths British MPs 1768–1774 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Scots Guards officers Welch Regiment officers 18th-century British Army personnel