LANGHOLM, John II

Styled ‘junior’ in the Lincolnshire election return of 1453, this John Langholm’s career is impossible entirely to distinguish from that of the later stages of his more important father’s. All that can be certainly said of the younger John is that, after representing Grimsby in the Parliament of 1453, he stood again as a candidate at the borough election of 1 July 1455, polling eight votes and coming fourth; and, given this recent connexion with the borough, it was probably he rather than his father who contributed 12d. to the expenses of the town’s MPs in 1460.1 C219/16/2; Bull. IHR, xlii. 217; N.E. Lincs. Archs., Grimsby bor. recs., assessments for parlty. expenses 1/612/2 (formerly 1/800/2). He was still alive in 1465 when named as a remainderman in a settlement of his mother’s inheritance.2 NRA, 6155, Lumley mss at Sandbeck Park, 537-8.