William Moffat (MP)

William Moffat (7 March 1737 – 12 January 1822) was an English banker, merchant and politician.

He was involved in several banking partnerships in London, and was also a merchant. By 1790 he lived in Bloomsbury, and in 1799 he bought the Painshill estate in Surrey, but sold it a few years later and lived in Wimbledon. In 1811, as a managing owner of East India Company ships, his business address is given as 27, Nicholas Lane. In 1819, it is 21, Birchin Lane.

He was elected at the 1802 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Winchelsea in Sussex, but was not re-elected in 1806. According to Hansard he made no contributions as an MP.

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