Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet (c. 1636 – 15 December 1696)[1] was an English politician and baronet.

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Background

He was the oldest son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet and his first wife Dorothy Westrow, daughter of Thomas Westrow.[2] In 1685, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3] Knatchbull was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and matriculated in 1652.[4] He was then called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1655.[3]

Career

He entered the English House of Commons in 1660 and sat for New Romney together with his father until the following year.[5] Between 1685 and 1695, Knatchbull represented Kent as Member of Parliament.[6] In 1690, he was appointed Commissioner to the Lord Privy Seal, an office he held for the next two years.[7]

Family

On 17 January 1659, he married Jane Monins, daughter of Sir Edward Monins, 2nd Baronet,[8] and had by her nine daughters and three sons.[3] Knatchbull died aged sixty and was buried in Mersham Hatch in Kent.[2] His sons having all predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Thomas.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsK.htm. Retrieved 12 July 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson. ed. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 402. 
  3. ^ a b c Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, ed (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. vol. IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 572–573. 
  4. ^ Knatchbull, John in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  5. ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, New Romney". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ncommons2.htm. Retrieved 11 July 2009. 
  6. ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Kent". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm. Retrieved 11 July 2009. 
  7. ^ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personal of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 147. 
  8. ^ "ThePeerage - Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p14825.htm#i148247. Retrieved 21 February 2007. 
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Rump Parliament		 Member of Parliament for New Romney
1660 – 1661
With: Sir Norton Knatchbull, Bt		 Succeeded by
Sir Norton Knatchbull, Bt
Charles Berkeley
Preceded by
Sir Edward Dering
Sir Vere Fane		 Member of Parliament for Kent
1685 – 1695
With: Sir William Twysden 1685–1689
Sir Vere Fane 1689–1691
Sir Thomas Roberts 1691–1695		 Succeeded by
Philip Sydney
Sir Thomas Roberts
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Norton Knatchbull		 Baronet
 (of Mersham Hatch)
1685 – 1696		 Succeeded by
Thomas Knatchbull