Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet (c. 1636 – 15 December 1696) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1690.
Background[]
Knatchbull was the eldest son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet and his first wife Dorothy Westrow, daughter of Thomas Westrow.[1] Knatchbull was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and matriculated in 1652.[2] He was then called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1655.[3]
Career[]
In April 1660, Knatchbull was elected Member of Parliament for New Romney together with his father until the following year.[3] In 1685 he succeeded his father as baronet and was elected MP for Kent. He was re-elected MP for Kent in 1689 and 1690.[3] In 1690, he was appointed Commissioner to the Lord Privy Seal, an office he held for the next two years.[4]
Knatchbull died aged sixty and was buried in in Kent.[3]
Family[]
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Knatchbull married , daughter of on 17 January 1659,[3] His sons having all predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Thomas.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 402.
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has extra text (help) - ^ "Knatchbull, John (KNTL652J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e History of Parliament Online – Knatchbull, John/
- ^ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 147.
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- 1630s births
- 1696 deaths
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Baronets in the Baronetage of England
- Members of the Inner Temple
- English MPs 1660
- English MPs 1685–1687
- English MPs 1689–1690
- English MPs 1690–1695