John (Jack) Mytton
1796–1834
Sportsman and eccentric. Served in the army, 1816–17. M.P. for Shrewsbury, 1819–20. Sheriff of Merioneth, 1821, and Shropshire, 1823. Dissipated a fortune and died of delirium tremens in the King’s Bench prison in 1834. Cousin of Fanny and Sarah Owen.
Sources
Fisher 2009
ODNB
Bibliography
Fisher, D. R., ed. 2009. The history of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820–1832. 7 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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