William Rashleigh (1817–1871)
William Rashleigh was an English Conservative Party politician.
He was the eldest son of William Rashleigh I and his second wife Caroline Hinxman, daughter of Henry Hinxman of Ivychurch, Wiltshire.
He was a Member of Parliament for East Cornwall from 1841 to 1847.
In 1855 he succeeded on the death of his father to the Menabilly estate near Fowey on the south coast of Cornwall.
He died in 1871. In 1843 he had married Hon. Catherine Stuart, eldest daughter of the Scottish peer Robert Walter Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre. He left no male progeny and was succeeded by his brother Jonathan Rashleigh
