Nicholas Philpott (c. 1695–1732), of Newton, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1718 to 1727. Philpott was the eldest son of Nicholas Philpott of Hereford and Vowchurch, Herefordshire. He matriculated at

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on 22 April 1714, aged 18. Philpott was returned as Member of Parliament for

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at a by-election on 22 November 1718. Lord Coningsby undertook that the Government would pay half his expenses. In Parliament he voted with the Administration on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts and on the

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. He was returned again at the 1722 general election. He was put forward as candidate at the 1727 general election but withdrew on a compromise with the Tories. Philpott married Elizabeth before April 1727. He lost his sanity and shot himself on 6 July 1732.

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