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COLLYER, Benjamin (d.1746), of Ruckholts, Essex.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
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Constituency
Dates
1722 - 1727
Family and Education
1st s. of Benjamin Collyer. m. Catherine, da. of Jeremiah Powell of Edenhope, Salop,1 1da.
Offices Held
Biography
Collyer, a merchant and brother-in-law of Robert Knight, the cashier of the South Sea Company, bought the manor of Ruckholts in 1720.2 Returned for Grimsby in 1722, he did not stand again. He died 19 Nov. 1746.