Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale
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1st Viscount Chetwynd
Hon. William Chetwynd
1695
Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale | |
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 Monument commemorating Lady Elizabeth Nightingale and Joseph Nightingale in St Michael's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London | |
| Member of Parliament for Stafford | |
| In office 1727–1734 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Foley 1st Viscount Chetwynd |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Foley Hon. William Chetwynd |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Gascoigne 1695 |
| Died | 20 July 1752 (aged 56)[1] Mamhead House, Devon |
| Party | Tory |
| Spouse | Lady Elizabeth Shirley |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale (1695–1752), of Enfield, Middlesex, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.
Nightingale was baptized as Gascoigne on 19 December 1695, the eldest surviving son of the Rev. Joseph Gascoigne, vicar of Enfield, and his wife Anne Theobald (married 1687).[2] She was the daughter of Francis Theobald of Barking, Suffolk and his wife Anne Nightingale, who was the sister of Sir Thomas Nightingale, 2nd Baronet.[3]
He was educated at Enfield under Dr Uvedale and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 1 July 1712.[4]
In 1721 he succeeded his father and in 1722 he succeeded his younger brother Robert to the estates worth nearly £300,000 of Sir Robert Nightingale, 4th Baronet. He thereupon assumed the additional name of Nightingale.
He married Lady Elizabeth Shirley, daughter of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers and his wife Mary Levinge, of Chartley, near Stafford on 24 June 1725.[3]
