John Chamberlain (died 1617)

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Sir John Chamberlain (c. 1560 - 1617) of Prestbury, Gloucestershire was an English landowner and politician. [1]

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Family

He was the elder son, and the armigerous heir, of the thrice-married diplomat Sir Thomas Chamberlain of Prestbury, Gloucestershire (died 1580) [2] by his second wife Joan Luddington (died 1565), widow of alderman John Machell, citizen and Clothworker of London (who died 1558). [3] [4] He was the elder brother of Edmund Chamberlain of Maugersbury, by Stow-on-the-Wold (died 1634), and of a sister named Theodosia; and he had both an elder and a younger half-brother, both named Thomas Chamberlain. Thomas the younger was of Oddington, Gloucestershire. [2] John married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Thynne, but had no children. [1]

Career

He matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1579. [5] He served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1596-7. [1] He has been identified as the man who sat for Clitheroe in 1593 and St Germans in 1597. [1] With many others, he was knighted on 23 July 1603 in the King's garden at Whitehall before the coronation. [6] His will was proved in 1617. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 N.M.S., 'Chamberlain, John (c.1560-1617), of Prestbury, Glos', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online.
  2. 1 2 Will of Sir Thomas Chamberlaine of Prestbury (P.C.C. 1580, Arundell quire).
  3. ↑ I. Cassidy, 'Chamberlain, Sir Thomas (c.1504-80), of Churchdown and Prestbury, Glos. and Cripplegate, London', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online.
  4. ↑ Joan was a daughter of Henry Luddington and Joan Kirkby, who remarried to Sir William Laxton.
  5. ↑ 'Chamberlayne, (Sir) John', in J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714, Early Series: Part I (Oxford, 1891), Chaffey-Chivers (British History Online).
  6. ↑ W.A. Shaw, The Knights of England, 2 vols (Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906), II, p. 118 (Internet Archive).
  7. ↑ "Will of Sir John Chamberleyne of Prestbury" (P.C.C. 1617, Weldon quire).
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