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{{Short description|English landowner and politician (1728–1808)}}
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[[File:John Hussey Delaval.jpg|thumb|Lord Delaval, miniature by [[John Downman]]]]
'''John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval''' (17 March 1728 – 17 May 1808), known as '''Sir John Delaval, Bt''', between 1761 and 1783, was an English landowner and politician.
==Background and education==
[[File:Seaton Delaval Hall 02 (crop).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Seaton Delaval Hall]], [[Northumberland]]]]
[[File:Doddington Hall - geograph.org.uk - 820943.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire]]]]
Delaval was the son of [[Francis Blake Delaval (1692–1752)|Francis Blake Delaval]], who inherited estates at [[Ford Castle]], [[Northumberland]] from his mother Mary, née Blake, and at [[Seaton Delaval]], Northumberland from his uncle Admiral [[George Delaval]] (1660–1723).  John's mother was Rhoda Apreece, through whom John inherited [[Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire]].  He was educated at [[Westminster School]]<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39337?docPos=8 "Delaval, John Hussey"], ''[[Dictionary of National Biography|Oxford DNB]],'' 2004</ref> and [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=DLVL746JB|name=Delaval, John Blake}}</ref> Delaval bought his father's estates from his elder brother [[Francis Blake Delaval (1727–1771)|Sir Francis Blake Delaval]] (1727–1771) in exchange for an [[annuity (finance theory)|annuity]], and developed the farming resources at Ford and the coal and mineral resources at Seaton.
His sister was [[Rhoda Delaval]],<ref name=Northumberland >{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum09nort#page/172/mode/2up | title=History of Northumberland: The Parochial Chapelries of Earsdon and Horton | volume=IX  | author=H. H. E. Craster, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford| publisher=Newcastle=Upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid & Company, Limited; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited | year=1909 | accessdate=12 March 2015 |page=173}}</ref> an artist and wife of [[Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet|Edward Astley]].<ref name="National Trust">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1276704 |title=Rhoda Delaval, Lady Astley (1725 - 1757) |publisher=National Trust Collections |accessdate=12 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402153744/http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1276704 |archivedate= 2 April 2015 }}</ref>
==Political career==
[[File:Baron Delaval coa.png|thumb|upright=1.1|Coat of arms of Lord Delaval]]
Delaval served as [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Berwick-on-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency)|Berwick on Tweed]] 1754–1761, 1765–1774 and 1780–1786. He was created a [[baronet]], of [[Seaton Delaval]] in the County of Northumberland, in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1761, and in 1783 he was raised to the [[Peerage of Ireland]] as '''Baron Delaval''', of Redford in the County of Wicklow.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12476 |date=16 September 1783 |page=1 }}</ref> In 1786 he was further honoured when he was made '''Baron Delaval''', of Seaton Delaval in the County of Northumberland, in the [[Peerage of Great Britain]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12775 |date=5 August 1786 |page=351 }}</ref>
==Personal life==
[[File:Portrait of Lord John Hussey Delaval Painted by William Bell.jpg|thumb|Lord Delaval by [[William Bell (artist)|William Bell]], 1774.]]
Delaval's seat was at [[Seaton Delaval Hall]], an 18th-century masterpiece by [[John Vanbrugh|Sir John Vanbrugh]].  Lord Delaval gave artist [[William Bell (artist)|William Bell]] his patronage, in return for a series of portraits painted of him and his family, and two views of [[Seaton Delaval Hall]].<ref name="test">[https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bell-william-17401804 Art UK Your Paintings William Bell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817033143/https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bell-william-17401804 |date=17 August 2020 }},</ref>
Delaval married twice but his only son predeceased him aged just 19, and the baronetcy and baronies became extinct on his death in 1808. He was buried in St Paul's Chapel, [[Westminster Abbey]].
He left his second wife Susannah Elizabeth a life interest in the Ford estate, and bequeathed his estates of Seaton Delaval and Doddington to his brother [[Edward Delaval|Edward Hussey Delaval (1729-1814)]]. On the death of Edward in 1814, Doddington passed to Edward's wife and then to his daughter Sarah. Seaton Delaval passed to [[Jacob Astley, 5th Baronet|Jacob]], the son of his deceased sister Rhoda, who had been married to [[Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet|Sir Edward Astley]] of [[Melton Constable Hall|Melton Constable]] in Norfolk.
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