Sir James Howe, 2nd Baronet (c. 1669 – 19 January 1736), of Berwick St Leonard, near Hindon, Wiltshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the

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and

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between 1698 and 1709. Howe was the son of

Sir George Howe, 1st Baronet Sir George Grobham Howe, 1st Baronet (c. 1627 – 26 September 1676), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1660 to 1676. Howe was the son of George Howe (d. 1647) of Berwick St Leonard, ...

, of Berwick St Leonard, and his wife Elizabeth Grimston, daughter of

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. His father had been MP for Hindon. He succeeded to the

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on the death of his father in 1676. He married Elizabeth Nutt, daughter of Edward Nutt of

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, Kent, in 1689. She died in 1691 and he married as his second wife Elizabeth Stratford, daughter of Henry Stratford of Halling, Gloucester, in August 1694.Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, Maltravers H. Extraordinary ''Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 13''
/ref> At the 1698 general election, Howe was elected as Tory Member of Parliament for Hindon. He was returned at the first general election of 1701, but chose not to stand in at the second general election of that year. He was re-elected MP for Hindon at the 1702 election and held the seat until the 1705 election when he was defeated. At the 1708 election he was returned again as MP for Hindon ,but was unseated on petition in February 1709. Howe died without issue on 19 January 1736 aged 66. His estates were inherited by his nephew

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, who had sat for Hindon from 1711 to 1713.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, James 1660s births 1736 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Politicians from Wiltshire Year of birth uncertain English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701 English MPs 1702–1705