CORYTON, Sir John, 4th Bt. (?1690-1739), of West Newton Ferrers, nr. Callington, Cornw.

Coryton, whose family had represented Callington almost continuously since the Restoration, was returned for it as a Tory in 1715. His only recorded vote was against the peerage bill in 1719. His name was sent to the Pretender as a Jacobite supporter in 1721,2Stuart mss 65/16. and he was in touch with Atterbury’s agents during the plot of 1722.3Rep. from the Cttee. appointed by the House of Commons to examine Christopher Layer and others, 1723, App. F. 11. Bought out at Callington by Walpole in 1734,4’State of the Borough of Callington 3 Mar. 1772’, Glubb mss at Royal Inst. of Cornw., Truro; see CALLINGTON. he died 22 May 1739, leaving all his property to his wife.5PCC 5 Browne. His cousin Peter, son of John Goodall, assumed the name of Coryton and contested the will under a remainder in Sir William Coryton’s will. After a protracted lawsuit, which ended in 1745, he acquired Crocadon and the Callington property, West Newton Ferrers going to the Helyar family.6Add. 36183, f. 86 seq.