Family and Education
b. c. 1628, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir George Morton, 1st Bt., of Milborne St. Andrew by Anne, da. of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley, Yorks., wid. of Sir Rotherham Willoughby of Aston Rowant, Oxon. educ. travelled abroad 1647. m. (1) 12 Aug. 1662 (with £2,000), Eleanor (d.1671), da. of John Fountaine, serjeant-at-law, of Wood Dalling, Norf., s.p.; (2) lic. 24 Feb. 1676, Elizabeth, da. of Benjamin Culme, DD, dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 1da. suc. fa. as 2nd Bt. 28 Feb. 1662.VCH Oxon. viii. 22; Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 599; N. and Q. for Som. and Dorset, iv. 27; Cal. Comm. Adv. Money, 1270; Guildhall RO, 9139; Soc. of Genealogists, Milborne St. Andrew par. reg. transcript.
Offices Held
Freeman, Poole Apr. 1660; commr. for assessment, Dorset 1661 – 80, Poole 1661 – 63, 1665 – 79, Wilts. 1665 – 69, Lincs. 1665 – 80, Dorset and Poole 1689 – 90, corporations, Dorset 1662 – 63, dep. lt. 1663 – 83, May 1688–?d., j.p. 1664 – 80, June 1688–?d., commr. for recusants 1675.
Gent. of privy chamber by June 1660–85, 1689 – d.; commr. for drowned lands 1690.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
MORTON, John (c.1628-99)
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Oxford 1644
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