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'''James Dawkins''' (c. 1696–1766) was an English landowner and politician.<ref name="HoP">{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/dawkins-james-1696-1766|title=''Dawkins, James (?1696–1766), of Over Norton, Oxon.,'' History of Parliament Online|accessdate=11 June 2016}}</ref>
==Life==
He was the second son of Colonel Richard Dawkins of Clarendon, a plantation and slave owner<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sheridan|first=Richard B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUV98bwrqscC&dq=colonel+richard+dawkins+plantation+jamaica+slave&pg=PA224|title=Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775|date=1994|publisher=Canoe Press|isbn=978-976-8125-13-2|language=en}}</ref> in [[Jamaica]], member of the Assembly (died c. 1698/1701/1705,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Burke|first=Bernard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=161CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA334|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|date=1871|publisher=Harrison|language=en}}</ref> of a [[Leicestershire]] family), and his second wife Mrs. Elizabeth Masters (d. 1702).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Burke|first=Bernard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=161CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA334|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|date=1871|publisher=Harrison|language=en}}</ref> He matriculated at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] on 28 March 1713, at age 16.<ref name="HoP"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Vere Langford Oliver|title=Caribbeana: Being Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r28jAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6|year=2000|publisher=CanDoo Creative Publishing|isbn=978-1-894488-02-0|page=6}}</ref><ref>'Dabbe-Dirkin', in ''Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714'', ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 366-405. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp366-405 [accessed 11 June 2016].</ref>
Dawkins, of Rusley Park, [[Bishopstone, Swindon|Bishopstone]], [[Wiltshire]], bought land at [[Over Norton]] in [[Oxfordshire]], the Busby estate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/dawkins/dawkins.html|title=bodley.ox.ac.uk, ''Papers of the Dawkins family''|work=[[University of Oxford]]|accessdate=11 June 2016}}</ref> In the [[general election of 1734]] he campaigned to become Member of Parliament for {{constlk|Oxford}}, but withdrew before the poll, despite having spent heavily. He was brought in unopposed, however, for {{constlk|New Woodstock}}, with the support of the Duchess of Marlborough.<ref name="HoP"/> In 1747 he lost his seat, to [[John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman]], who was backed by [[Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/bateman-john-1721-1802|title=''Bateman, John, 2nd Visct. Bateman [I] (1721–1802), of Shobdon, Herefs.'', History of Parliament Online|accessdate=11 June 2016}}</ref>
In the 1750s, Dawkins was considered a [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]]. He died unmarried on 10 May 1766. His [[Over Norton Park]] estate went to [[Henry Dawkins]], his nephew.<ref name="HoP"/>
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before=[[Samuel Trotman (1686–1748)|Samuel Trotman]] | before2=[[John Spencer (British politician)|John Spencer]] |
title=[[Member of Parliament]] for [[Woodstock (UK Parliament constituency)|Woodstock]] | with=[[John Spencer (British politician)|John Spencer]] 1734–1746 | with2=[[John Trevor, 3rd Baron Trevor|John Trevor]] 1746–1747 |
years=[[1734 British general election|1734]]–[[1747 British general election|1747]] |
after=[[John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman|John Bateman]] | after2=[[John Trevor, 3rd Baron Trevor|John Trevor]]
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[[Category:Jamaican slave owners]]
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