Adolphus Oughton

Sir Adolphus Oughton, 1st Baronet (c. 1685 – 4 September 1736), of <a href="/facts/Tachbrook/fba2xCoN">Tachbrook</a>, Warwickshire, was a British Army officer and politician.
Oughton was the son of Adolphus Oughton and Mary Samwell, daughter of Richard Samwell, of Upton, <a href="/facts/Northamptonshire/UbFu0Vjj">Northamptonshire</a>. and educated at <a href="/facts/Trinity_College%2c_Oxford/72glWH22">Trinity College, Oxford</a> and the <a href="/facts/Middle_Temple/B5RL63SH">Middle Temple</a> (1703).
He joined the British Army and was a captain and lieutenant-colonel in the <a href="/facts/1st_Foot_Guards/IpU2WplS">1st Foot Guards</a> (1706), a 1st major and colonel in the <a href="/facts/Coldstream_Guards/WCeeL52F">Coldstream Guards</a> (1715) and a lieutenant-colonel (1717) in the <a href="/facts/8th_Dragoons/qlAhsnpU">8th Dragoons</a>, of which regiment he assumed the colonelcy in 1733. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1735. He was <a href="/facts/Groom_of_the_Bedchamber/txh6mgFT">Groom of the Bedchamber</a> to the Prince of Wales from 1714 to 1717.
He sat as <a href="/facts/Member_of_Parliament/qjfwk6mp">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/facts/Coventry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)/HnQsH5YR">Coventry</a> between 1715 and 1736. In 1718 he was created a baronet, of Tetchbrook in the County of Warwick.
He died in September 1736. He had first married his cousin, Frances Wagstaffe, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Wagstaffe and the widow of <a href="/facts/Sir_Edward_Bagot%2c_4th_Baronet/SE6DH5hm">Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet</a>, M.P., of Blithfield, Staffordshire. He secondly married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Baber of Sunninghill, Berkshire. He had no legitimate children and thus the baronetcy became extinct, although he did however leave an illegitimate son, <a href="/facts/James_Adolphus_Dickenson_Oughton/P0TJd0bL">James Adolphus Dickenson Oughton</a>, who became a lieutenant-general in the British Army.

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