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St John, of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wiltshire (E Baronet, 1611)

Creation: let.pat. 22 May 1611

Family name: St John

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Arms:

Argent on a Chief Gules two Mullets Or

Crest:

A Mount Vert thereon a Falcon rising Or ducally gorged Gules

Motto:

Nec quaerere, nec spernere honorem (Neither to seek nor to despise honours)

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Sir John St John, 1st Bt.

son and heir of Sir John St John, of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wiltshire, by his wife Lucy Hungerford, dau. and hrss. of Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farley, co. Wiltshire

born

mar. (1)

Anne Leighton, 1st dau. and cohrss. of Sir Thomas Leighton, of Feckenham, co. Worcester, Governor of Jersey, by his wife Cecilia/Elizabeth Knollys, sister of William [Knollys], 1st Earl of Banbury, and 3rd dau. of Sir Francis Knollys KG, by his wife Mary Carey, sister of Henry [Carey], 1st Baron Hunsdon, and only dau. of William Carey, Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII (by his wife Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII and elder sister of Lady Anne Boleyn, suo jure Marchioness of Pembroke, herself second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, 1st dau. and cohrss. in her issue of Thomas [Boleyn], 1st Earl of Wiltshire and 1st Earl of Ormonde), 2nd son of Sir Thomas Carey, of Chilton Foliat, co. Wiltshire, by his wife Margaret Spencer, 2nd dau. and cohrss. of Sir Robert Spencer, of Spencercombe, co. Devon, by his wife Lady Eleanor Butler, widow of James [Butler], 5th Earl of Ormonde, and 1st dau. and cohrss. of Edmund [Beaufort], 1st Duke of Somerset

children by first wife

1. Oliver St John (b. c. 1613; dvp. Nov 1641), mar. 30 Jan 1633/4 Hon Catherine Vere (b. c. 1612-13; mar. (2) after 6 Mar 16401/1 as his first wife John [Poulett], 2nd Baron Poulett; d. between 27 Mar 1648 and 30 Jan 1653), 3rd dau. and cohrss. of Horatio [Vere], 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury, by his wife Mary Holby, widow of William Holby, sister of John [Tracy], 1st Viscount Tracy, and 2nd dau. of Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, co. Gloucester, and had issue:

1a. Sir John St John, 2nd Bt.

2. Sir Walter St John, 3rd Bt.

3. Henry St John, of Tandragee, mar. Catherine St John, dau. of Sir Oliver St John, of Longthorpe, co. Northampton, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1648-60, by his first wife Johanna Altham, dau. and hrss. of Sir James Altham, of Mark Hall, co. Essex

4. Anne St John (b. 6 Nov 1614; bur. 18 Mar 1695/6 with both her husbands at Spelsbury, co. Oxford), mar. (1) 2 Oct 1632 Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Bt., of Quarrendon, co. Buckingham, and Ditchley, co. Oxford, and (2) before 7 Jan 1644/5 as his second wife Henry [Wilmot], 1st Earl of Rochester, and had issue by both husbands

mar. (2)

Margaret Grubham (widow of Sir Richard Grubham ; d. bef. 24 Nov 1637), sister of Sir William Whitmore, of London and Apley, co. Shropshire, Sheriff of Shropshire, and dau. of William Whitmore, of London, by his wife Anne Bond, dau. of William Bond, Alderman of London

bur.

1648 at Battersea, co. Surrey

created

22 May 1611 a Baronet of England, styled "of Lydiard Tregoze, co. Wiltshire"

suc. by

grandson

note

admitted to Lincoln's Inn 1604; knighted 1608/9; Member of Parliament for Wiltshire 1624-25; on the death in 1630 of his uncle, Oliver [St John], 1st Viscount Grandison, he inherited the manors of Battersea and Wandsworth, co. Surrey; Sheriff of Wiltshire 1632-33; a zealous supporter of King Charles I in the Civil War

Sir John St John, 2nd Bt.

born

c. 1637

died

1657

suc. by

uncle

Sir Walter St John, 3rd Bt.

born

c. 1622

mar.

in or before 1651 Johanna St John (d. bef. Feb 1705), dau. of Sir Oliver St John, of Longthorpe, co. Northampton, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1648-60, by his first wife Johanna Altham, dau. and hrss. of Sir James Altham, of Mark Hall, co. Essex

children

1. Sir Henry St John, 4th Bt., later 1st Viscount St John

1. Joan St John, mar. Walter Chute, of Stockwell, co. Surrey, and had issue

2. Barbara St John, mar. 31 Mar 1684 Sir John Topp, 2nd Bt., of Tormarton, co. Gloucester, and had issue

3. Anne St John, mar. as his second wife Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, co. Chester, and had issue

4. Elizabeth St John (d. 1702)

died

5 Jul 1708 (bur. at Battersea, co. Surrey)

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament for Wiltshire 1656-58, 1659, 1679-81 and 1690-95, and for Wotton Bassett 1660-79

Sir Henry St John, 4th Bt., later 1st Viscount St John

created

2 Jul 1716 Baron St John, of Battersea in the County of Surrey, and Viscount St John, with a special remainder to his younger sons in order of their birth and the heirs male of their bodies, failing which to the heirs male of his own body (this unusual remainder was because at the time of the granting of his peerage his eldest son, Lord Bolingbroke, had been attainted)

The Baronetcy has been held by the Viscounts St John from 2 Jul 1716.

First written 10 May 2012

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