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MELCOMBE, GEORGE BUBB DODDINGTON, BARON (169r1762)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 92 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MELCOMBE, GEORGE BUBB DODDINGTON, BARON (169r1762) , English politician. His father's name was Bubb, but the son took the name of Doddington on inheriting a large property by the death of an uncle of that name (1720). He was educated at Oxford. In 1715 he was returned to
parliament
  as member for Winchelsea, and was sent as
envoy
  extraordinary to Spain. He carried on a scandalous traffic in the five or six parliamentary votes which he controlled, his tergiversation and venality furnishing food for the political satirists and caricaturists of the day. His most estimable political action was his defence of Admiral Byng in the
House
  of Commons (1757). From 1722 to 1754 he sat in
parliament
  for Bridge-water; from 1724 to 1740 was a lord of the treasury; and, in 1744, became treasurer of the navy under
Henry
  Pelham, and, again in 1755, under Newcastle and Fox. In April 1761 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Melcombe of Melcombe Regis in Dorsetshire. He died at La Trappe, his Hammersmith
house
 , on the 28th of July 1762. His wife, acknowledged only after the death of another lady to whom he had given a bond that he would marry no one else, died without issue. He was a wit and a friend of wits, a good scholar, and something of a Maecenas; Thomson's " Summer " was dedicated to him,
Fielding
  addressed to him an epistle and Edward
Young
  a satire. He was a leading spirit of the Elell-fire " Club, whose members, called " Franciscans," from their founder Sir Francis Dashwood (d. 1781), held their
revels
  in the ruined Cistercian abbey of Medmenham, Bucks.
His diary, published in 1784, reveals him in. his character of place-hunter and throws a curious light on the political methods of the time.


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