Morgan Randyll (1649 – 1738 or later), of Chilworth Manor, Surrey was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the

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and

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between 1679 and 1722. Chilworth Manor - geograph

Randyll was the eldest son of Vincent Randyll of Chilworth and his wife Dorothy Duncombe, daughter of John Duncombe of Weston, Surrey. He matriculated at

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, in 1666 and was awarded a BA in 1670, and in the same year was admitted at the

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. In 1673, he inherited Chilworth Manor from his father. In 1677, he was

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. He married Anne Gould, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Gould, draper, of Aldermanbury, London by licence dated 5 February 1678. Randyll was elected a Member of Parliament for

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in October 1679 and again in 1681. He was selected

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for the year 1686 to 1687 and served as a Deputy-lieutenant of the county from February to October 1688 and from 1702 onwards. He was returned again for Guildford in 1690, 1695, 1698, February 1701, December 1701, 1702, 1708, 3 February 1711 and 1713. He was returned again at Guildford unopposed at the

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but the cumulative cost of his electioneering forced him to sell his property in Chilworth in 1720. He stood for Guildford for the last time at the

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, but was defeated in a contest. In due course, he was committed to a debtors' prison. Randyll died in obscurity sometime after 1735, leaving two daughters, one of whom married Gilbert Vane, 2nd

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