Salwey Winnington (28 August 1666 – 6 November 1736), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire, was an English landowner and

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house ...

(MP). Winnington was the eldest son of Sir Francis Winnington, a lawyer and politician who was Solicitor General in the 1670s. He himself also entered the

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to study law. He entered Parliament in 1694 as MP for

Bewdley Bewdley ( pronunciation) is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District in Worcestershire, England on the banks of the River Severn. It is in the Severn Valley west of Kidderminster and southwest of Birmingham. It lies on the River S ...

, one of the small number of English constituencies which was represented only by a single MP, and was its member for all but two-and-a-half years of the next twenty. In 1690, Winnington married Anne Foley, daughter of Thomas Foley of

Witley Court Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire, England is a ruined Italianate mansion. Built for the Foleys in the seventeenth century on the site of a former manor house, it was enormously expanded in the early nineteenth century by the architect ...

and sister of Lord Foley. They had one son, Thomas Winnington, who became a Member of Parliament and

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, and five daughters.

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Winnington genealogy
1666 births 1736 deaths Politicians from Worcestershire Members of the Middle Temple English landowners English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701 English MPs 1701–1702 English MPs 1702–1705 English MPs 1705–1707 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Tory MPs (pre-1834) British MPs 1707–1708 British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1713–1715 {{18thC-England-MP-stub