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Nathaniel Jefferys
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'''Nathaniel Jefferys''' (?1758–3 March 1810) was a London jeweller who was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)|Coventry]] from 1796 to 1803.<ref name="Thorne1986">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> His father's family were [[goldsmith]]s and in 1783 he became jeweller to members of the [[British royal family|royal family]] and [[court of Saint James|courtiers]].<ref name="Thorne1986"/> About the same time he married the daughter of a rich merchant, with whom he had one son and two daughters.<ref name="Thorne1986"/> He lived richly, with a [[townhouse]] in [[Pall Mall, London|Pall Mall]] and a seaside villa by [[Benjamin Bond-Hopkins]] near [[Ramsgate]].<ref name="Thorne1986"/> [[William Wilberforce Bird (MP)|William Wilberforce Bird]] invited him to stand algongside him in Coventry at the [[1796 British general election|1796 general election]].<ref name="Thorne1986"/> In Parliament he supported the Prince of Wales against the [[first Pitt ministry|Pitt ministry]].<ref name="Thorne1986"/> In 1797 he went [[bankrupt]] though his clients' failure to pay their bills; a subsequent attempt to restart with his father-in-law's support was unsuccessful.<ref name="Thorne1986"/> He held his seat at [[1802 United Kingdom general election|the 1802 election]], ahead of Bird and [[Peter Moore (MP)|Peter Moore]], but was unseated by Moore on 11 March 1803, when it was decided that he did not meet the property qualification, the land purportedly [[conveyancing|conveyed]] to him by William Bryant shortly before the election having in fact been sold by Bryant some years previously.<ref name="Thorne1986"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 1806 he went bankrupt again, shortly after publishing a pamphlet attacking the Prince of Wales (the future [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]]), whom he blamed for his debts and political failure.<ref name="Thorne1986"/> He subsequently worked as an [[estate agent]] and wrote [[travel guides]].
==References==
===Publications===
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===Citations===
[[Category:Members of Parliament for Coventry]]
[[Category:British MPs 1796–1800]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1801–1802]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1802–1806]]
[[Category:English goldsmiths]]
[[Category:English jewellers]]
[[Category:People from Mayfair]]
[[Category:1810 deaths]]
[[Category:1750s births]]
[[Category:English travel writers]]
[[Category:British estate agents (people)]]
==References==
===Publications===
* Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)
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===Citations===
[[Category:Members of Parliament for Coventry]]
[[Category:British MPs 1796–1800]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1801–1802]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1802–1806]]
[[Category:English goldsmiths]]
[[Category:English jewellers]]
[[Category:People from Mayfair]]
[[Category:1810 deaths]]
[[Category:1750s births]]
[[Category:English travel writers]]
[[Category:British estate agents (people)]]
December 13, 2019 at 01:39AM
