A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bromley, William
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BROMLEY, WILLIAM.
Speaker of the House of Commons.
1664—1732.
Admitted 9 April, 1683.
Son and heir of Sir William Bromley, K.B., of Baggington (Baginton), co. Warwick, where he was born. He graduated at Oxford in 1681. The first years of his manhood were spent in travel upon the Continent, of which he published accounts in 1692 and 1702. In 1689 he was elected for Warwickshire, and was one of those who declined to acknowledge William III. He was subsequently returned for Oxford University, which he continued to represent till his death, 13 Feb. 1731-2. He was an ardent supporter of the High Church party, and suspected of Jacobite views, which militated against his election as Speaker in 1705, though five years later he was chosen to the office without opposition.