Sir William Moreton (c.1696 – 14 March 1763) of

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, Cheshire was an English judge,

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and

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He was born the second son of the Rt. Rev.

William Moreton William Moreton (1641 – 21 November 1715) was an English prelate in the Church of Ireland who served as the Bishop of Meath from 1705-1716. Life He was born in Chester in 1641, eldest son of Edward Moreton (1599–1665), prebendary of Chester. ...

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(1681-1705) and

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(1705-16) but the first by his second wife Mary Harman. He was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

(1710–14) and studied law at the

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(1714), where he was called to the bar in 1722. He was appointed a Bencher at the Inner Temple in 1752, reader in 1758, and treasurer for 1760–1. Knighted on 19 September 1755, he served as Recorder of London from 1753 until his death. In 1755 he was elected to Parliament to represent

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, sitting until 1761. He died in 1763. He had married, in 1742, Jane, the widow of John Lawton of Lawton but left no children. His estate passed to the son of his half-sister, the Revd Richard Taylor, who thereupon adopted the name of Moreton.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreton, William, Sir 1690s births 1763 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Inner Temple Knights Bachelor Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1754–1761 Recorders of London