Family and Education
m. 2 Aug. 1612, Alice Lanne (d. 1627), 5s (3 d.v.p.), 3da.Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge par. reg. ff. 4v, 5v, 6, 7v, 8-10 and unfol. bur. 18 July 1669.Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge par. reg.; F. Blomefield, Collectanea Cantabrigiensia (Norwich, 1750), 80.
Offices Held

Civic: elector, Camb. 1624; supervisor, 1624 – 25; common councilman, May 1625 – May 1641; coroner, 1628 – 29; cllr. 1638 – 40, 1660 – 61; alderman, May 1641 – 18 July 1662; mayor, 1644–5.Cambs. RO, Camb. corp. archives, common day bk. 1610–46, ff. 130, 133, 139v, 174, pp. 248v, 299, 332, 402; common day bk. 1647–81, f. 129v; J.M. Gray, Biographical Notes on the Mayors of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1922), 37–8.

Local: collector, Ship Money, Camb. 1637.CUL, University Archives, CUR 36.1, no. 27. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. gaol delivery, 10 Sept. 1641, 26 May 1654–18 Sept. 1660;C181/5, f. 212; C181/6, pp. 35, 388. assessment, Cambs. 1642, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Camb. 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. sewers, Cambs. 24 July 1645;C181/5, f. 256v. Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646, 6 May 1654-aft. July 1659;C181/5, f. 270; C181/6, pp. 28, 382. militia, Cambs. and I. of Ely 2 Dec. 1648; Cambs. 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16. J.p.; Camb. by May 1654-July 1660.C231/6, pp. 217, 299; C181/6, pp. 34, 387. Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 16, 379. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs., Hunts. and I. of Ely 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, Cambs. 21 Sept. 1655.Bodl. Rawl. C.948, p. 24.

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649; Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 4 July 1650.CJ vi. 437a.

Military: col. militia ft. Cambs. 15 July 1650-aft. Apr. 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 508; SP28/223: Cambs. militia commrs. to R. Pettit, 4 Apr. 1651; E134/16ChasII/Mich22.

Mercantile: jt. comptroller inward customs, London June 1654-aft. Sept. 1659;Bodl. Rawl. A.328, p. 81; CJ vii. 786b.

: of Cambridge, Cambs.
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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LOWRY, John (d. 1669), of Cambridge, Cambs.

Will
not found.
Estates
various properties leased to him by the Cambridge corporation;Downing Coll. Cambridge, Bowtell MSS 5-6; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, MS 618/364, pp. 78, 81. leased property in King’s Street (now Hobson Street), Cambridge, 1617;CUL, EDC 2/4/2, f. 8v. owned properties in St Benedict’s and St Andrew’s parishes, Cambridge;CUL, Univ. Archives, CUR 37.3, nos. 109, 128. leased property from Trinity Coll. Cambridge.Trinity Coll. Cambridge, senior bursar’s audit bk. 1637-59, ff. 37v, 100v.
Oxford 1644
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