James Haughton Langston (25 May 1796 – 19 October 1863) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament.

Life

He was the son of John Langston of Sarsden House, Oxfordshire, and his wife, Sarah. He was educated at

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(1811). He matriculated at

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in 1814, graduating DCL in 1819. In 1812 Langston succeeded his father, inheriting the Sarsden estate. He was appointed

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for 1819–20 and verderer of

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. Langston served as MP for New Woodstock from 1820 to 1826 and

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from 1826 to 1834 and from 1841 to 1863. He died in 1863. He had married the Hon. Julia Moreton, the daughter of Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 4th Baron Ducie. They had one daughter who survived into adulthood,

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, to whom he bequeathed his Oxfordshire estate. In 1849 she married her cousin Lord Moreton, later 3rd Earl of Ducie.

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