John Moggridge, Esq.

John Moggridge, Esq. (d. 1803) of Leigh House, near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, was a leading member of the Wiltshire Committee of Protestant Dissenters during the effort to repeal the Test Acts in 1790 and was a delegate to the meeting of dissenters in London prior to the vote in the House of Commons on repeal in March 1790.  See his letters to William Wood of Leeds, 20 January, 9 February, 18 May 1790, and 15 April 1791, ff. 64, 80, 99, and 115, in Test Acts Papers, D1/18, John Rylands University Library of Manchester.  His son, John Hodder Moggridge (b. 1771), later published Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Difficulties and Internal Distresses of the Country, more particularly those of the Agricultural and Landed Interest (Newport, 1815).