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bap. 24 Aug. 1606, 3rd s. of William Okey of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. and Margaret Wetherley.H.G. Tibbutt, ‘Colonel John Okey, 1606-1662’, Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xxxv. 91, 173; J. Peacey, The Life of John Okey the Regicide (1601-1662) (privately printed, 1999), epilogue. educ. Oxford Univ. MA (h.c.) 19 May 1649.Al. Ox. m. (1) 20 Jan. 1630, Susanna Pearson, 1s. 1da.; (2) 15 July 1659, Mary, da. of --- Rose and wid. of John Blackwell of Cripplegate, London, 1da.Tibbutt, ‘Okey’, 91, 173; Peacey, Okey, epilogue. exec. 19 Apr. 1662.Oxford DNB.
Offices Held

Military: quartermaster of horse (parlian.), tp. of 2nd Ld. Brooke, regt. of 5th earl of Bedford, army of 3rd earl of Essex, c.Aug.-Nov. 1642. 18 Nov. 1642 – 13 Feb. 1643Peacock, Army Lists, 48. Capt. of dragoons, regt. of Richard Browne II*,; capt. of ft. regt. of Ld. Brooke, c.Feb.-7 May. 1643; capt. of horse, regt. of Sir Arthur Hesilrige*, 1 June 1643–7 July 1644;SP28/136/19, f. 14; SP28/267/2, ff. 22–6; SP28/7/537–43; SP28/17/492; Tibbutt, ‘Okey’, 3–4; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. maj. 7 July 1644–28 Apr. 1645.SP28/267/2, ff. 24, 37–41; Tibbutt, ‘Okey’, 4. Col. of dragoons (horse from 29 Nov. 1650), New Model army, Apr. 1645 – Dec. 1654, 1 July – 12 Oct. 1659, 20 Jan.-Apr. 1660.Tibbutt, ‘Okey’, 5–6, 39; CJ vii. 697b, 796a-b, 816b; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (2015–16), ii. 49, 81, 132. Gov. Bristol July-?Oct. 1659, Feb.-Apr. 1660.CSP Dom. 1659–60, pp. 38, 351.

Local: j.p. Mdx. 10 Oct. 1649 – aft.Oct. 1653; Beds. July 1650 – 29 June 1657, Nov. 1658 – 6 Mar. 1660; Som Mar.-aft. Oct. 1653.C231/6, pp. 166, 195, 254, 370, 415; C193/13/4, ff. 63v, 83v; CJ vii. 865b. Commr. assessment, Beds. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 20 Dec. 1654, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Westminster 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652;CJ vii. 405b; A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650;Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). ejecting scandalous ministers, Beds. 28 Aug. 1654; London militia, 7 July 1659; militia, Beds., Mdx., Som. 26 July 1659; Bristol, Glos., Worcs., Herefs., Cornw., Som., Dorset, Devon, Wilts., S. Wales 5–6 Aug. 1659.A. and O.; CJ vii. 748a, 750a-b.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649, 21 Nov. 1653;A. and O. for governing army, 26 Dec. 1659.CJ vii. 797a.

Parlimentarian
OKEY, John (1606-62), of Hackney, Mdx. and Ampthill, Beds.
: Mdx. and Beds., Ampthill.
Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, unknown, aft. 1645;BM. line engraving, unknown, 1794;BM; NPG. line engraving, unknown, 1810.BM; NPG.

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Commons 1640-1660
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OKEY, John (1606-62), of Hackney, Mdx. and Ampthill, Beds.

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purchased Baker’s Barn, Hackney, Mdx. c.1647; also leased tenements in Old Street, Mdx.;Tibbutt, ‘Okey’, 79; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 344. held lease of lordship of Leighton Buzzard, Beds. c.1650;CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 248. granted £300 p.a. from confiscated Scottish lands 9 Sept. 1651;CJ vii. 14a. in possession of Brogborough Park, Beds. by 1657, and honour and manor of Ampthill and Milbrook, Beds. by Oct. 1659.Tibbutt, ‘Okey’, 75, 77.
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