Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet (21 August 1619 – 8 August 1672) was an English politician.

Born in Littlecote in Wiltshire, he was the son of Sir William Borlase and Amy Popham. Borlase was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he was matriculated on 30 April 1635, and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in the following year. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Marlow in the Short Parliament of 1640, and was re-elected to the Long Parliament but his election was declared void after a dispute. However he was instead elected for Corfe Castle in 1641, being disbarred from sitting for his Royalist tendencies in 1644. Around 1646, he was imprisoned by the Puritan party, but was later released. After the Restoration, he represented Wycombe from 1661 to 1672. On 4 May 1642, he was made a Baronet, of Bockmer in the County of Buckinghamshire. Borlase died, aged 52 in Bockmer in Buckinghamshire and was buried in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire on 12 August 1672.

On 4 December 1637, he married Alice Bancks, daughter of Sir John Bancks in St Giles in the Fields Church in London. They had seven children, six daughters and one son, John Borlase.

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• thePeerage. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of England
Preceded by Edmund Petty Richard Browne	Member of Parliament for Wycombe with Sir Edmund Pye, Bt 1661–1672	Succeeded by Sir John Borlase, Bt Sir Edmund Pye, Bt
Peerage of England
Preceded by (new creation)	Baronet (of Bockmer) 1642–1672	Succeeded by John Borlase