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years of honest, however imperfect, endeavours to serve the Crown in an unpleasant and something critical situation”. He was duly returned as MP for
Sandwich in October. Dartmouth refused to accept his resignation and sent him back to Quebec while keeping his seat in Parliament. However he did not intend to stay there for long and at the time of the American invasion in summer 1775 wrote on the prospects in Quebec “as gloomy ... in point of security and in the ill humours and evil dispositions of its inhabitants ... as can be imagined”. He returned to England in November 1775 and in February 1776 made his only speech in Parliament defending the Quebec Act and praising Carleton.
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Hey married secondly Sarah Paplay (1758–?) daughter of George Paplay (?-1769) and Sarah Paplay née
Lawrence (1727–?) of Jamaica on 5 April 1783 in Westminster.. He died on 3 March 1797.
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