Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd Baronet (1678–1755), British MP for Hastings 1710–1713, 1722–1741, for Seaford 1715–1717
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In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.
Baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho on 29 March 1739, he was the eldest surviving son of the Rt Revd Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, Bishop of Chichester and his wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham.
Sir William Ashburnham, 5th Baronet (1739–1823), his son, British MP for Hastings 1761–1774