ST JOHN, Oliver (1634-88) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 1634, 1st. s. and h. of Sir Paulet St John (d.1638) and Elizabeth (d. aft. 1681), da. of Sir Rowland Vaughan of St. Mary Spital, Shoreditch, Mdx.; bro. of St John, 3rd earl of Bolingbroke. m. 24 Nov. 1654, Frances (d.1678), da. William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle, s.p. d. 18 Mar. 1688; will 12 Jan. 1669 – 20 May 1679, pr. 11 Aug. 1688. TNA, PROB 11/392.

Offices Held

Commr. for accounts 1666. Bodl. Carte 222, ff. 138–9; CSP Dom. 1666–7, pp. 365–6.

Recorder, Bedford 1662–84; J. Godber, Hist. of Beds. 255; Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xxvi. pp. xiv. 156–7. custos rot. Beds. 1667 – 81.

Parlimentarian

ST JOHN, Oliver (1634-88)

Associated with: Bletsoe (Bletso, Beds. and Melchbourne, Beds.VCH Beds. iii. 41; J. Godber, History of Beds, p. 255.;

Likenesses

oil on canvas by unknown artist, Lydiard House, Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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