the French army, he pointed out that there were three times as many in the Dutch service. In 1678 he was appointed to the committee to draw up the address for the removal of (privy) counsellors, yet acted twice with Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram as teller for the adjournment to avoid such a debate on the Duke of Lauderdale. His name appeared on both lists of the court party for this year. Eighteen years since the last elections on a national basis, Dalmahoy stood for re-election on the corporation interest at the first general election of 1679 when the issue of succession was culminating. He defeated notable republican tried and executed two years later Algernon Sidney despite energetic canvassing by the Quakers. Shaftesbury again marked Dalmahoy ‘vile’. Dalmahoy voted against exclusion (of James II and VII). His only committees in the first Exclusion Parliament were to inquire into the decay of the woollen manufactures and the abuses of the post office. In his only recorded speech, he again defended Lauderdale: As one of the ‘unanimous club’ he did not stand again, and sold his Guildford property in 1681. He died on 24 May 1682, and was entombed at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. No other member of his immediate blood-line sat in Parliament, either north or south of the border. Government offices Commissioner for assessment: Surrey (re taxes) 1661-80; Magistrate: Surrey 1664-death, Deputy Lieutenant 1665-death Commissioner for recusants 1675 Commissioner for rebuilding of Southwark 1677. Freedom of local Borough Freeman of Guildford (1664-death) References Year of birth missing 1682 deaths English MPs 1661–1679 Members of Parliament for Guildford