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Richard Du Cane (13 October 1681 – 3 October 1744) was a British businessman and politician who sat in the
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from 1715 to 1722. Du Cane was the son of Peter Du Cane, the elder and his wife Jane Booth, daughter of Richard Booth, a London merchant. The Du Cane family was of distinguished
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descent and was a leading
Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
family of merchants and politicians. He married Anne Lyde, daughter of Nehemiah Lyde of Coggeshall and his wife Priscilla Reade on 17 August 1710. By his marriage, he acquired a substantial property near Colchester. Du Cane was a prominent businessman in the
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, and served as a director of the
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between 1710 and 1730. He was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament for
Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in northeastern Essex, England. It is the second-largest settlement in the county, with a population of 130,245 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census. The demonym is ''Colcestrian''. Colchester occupies the ...
(Essex) at the 1715 general election. In 1716, he voted for the septennial bill and for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts. He voted against the Peerage Bill in 1719. He did not stand for parliament again. He was sometime Governor of Christ's Hospital and
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. Du Cane's portrait is one of the well known paintings of Ignaz Stern.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Du Cane, Richard 1681 births 1744 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1715–1722