John Chudleigh

For John Chudleigh (MP for Devon), see Devon (UK Parliament constituency).
Arms of Chudleigh: Ermine, three lions rampant gules[1]

Sir John Chudleigh (1606 - 1634) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.

Origins

Chudleigh was the eldest son of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (d.1656) of Ashton, Devon, (whom he predeceased), and his wife Mary Strode, eldest daughter of Sir William Strode (died 1637), MP, of Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon.

Career

He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 1 June 1621 aged 15 and was awarded BA in 1624 and MA in 1626.[2] He was knighted at Plymouth as a captain on 28 September 1625.[3] In 1628 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles I embarked upon his Personal Rule without parliament for eleven years.[4] He was incorporated at Cambridge University in 1629.[5]

Death

Chudleigh died at the age of about 28 in his father's lifetime[2] and his brother George succeeded to the baronetcy.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.478
  2. 1 2 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Chocke-Colepeper', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 274-303. Date accessed: 5 May 2012
  3. ↑ Knights of England
  4. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 218.
  5. ↑ "Chudleigh, John (CHDH629J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ↑ George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Badger
Sir Robert Carr		 Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel
1628-1629
With: Sir Thomas Badger		 Succeeded by
Parliament suspended until 1640
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