Henry St John (MP for Huntingdon)

Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox officeholder Sir Henry St John (1590-c.1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1625.

Biography

St John was a younger son of Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso and his wife Dorothy Reid, daughter of Sir John Rede or Reid, of Odington, Gloucestershire.<ref name=AC>Archaeologia Cambrensis (1861)</ref> He was knighted on 24 July 1619 at Bletsoe together with his brother Beauchamp, MP.<ref>Knights of England</ref><ref>John Nichols The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities of King Charles I Volume 3</ref> Apart from Beauchamp, four other brothers, Oliver, Rowland, Anthony and Alexander were to become MPs. <ref> Template:Cite web </ref>

In 1621 St John was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon. He was re-elected MP for Huntingdon in 1624 and again in 1625.<ref name=Willis>Template:Cite Notitia Parliamentaria</ref>

St John died without issue.<ref name=AC/> His eldest brother Oliver inherited the Barony and became Earl of Bolingbroke.

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