William Weddell

William Weddell, portrait by Pompeo Batoni, frequented by many young Englishmen on the Grand Tour
Monument to William Weddell, Ripon Cathedral

William Weddell (13 May 1736 – 30 April 1792) of Newby Hall in the parish of Skelton-on-Ure, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1766 and 1792. He created a notable collection of antiquities including the Barberini Venus.


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