John Feilder

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The Honourable
John Feilder
MP
Member of Parliament for St. Ives
In office
1659–1659
Preceded by John St Aubyn
Succeeded by James Praed
Governor of Portsmouth
In office
1649–1649
Preceded by George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich
Succeeded by John Desborough
Member of Parliament for St. Ives
In office
1647 –December 1648
Preceded by Seat unrepresented
Succeeded by James Praed
High Sheriff of Hampshire
In office
1642–1643
Preceded by Sir Hugh Stewkley
Succeeded by William Kingsmill
Personal details
Born Kingston, London
Alma mater St Edmund Hall, Oxford

John Feilder was an English politician who sat as a royal independent during the Rump Parliament, where he has been described as "one of the most conservative influences". [1]

Rump Parliament political body in the time of the English Revolution

The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride purged the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.

After attending Oxford University he joined the army, becoming a colonel and captain of foot, and captain of a troop of horse during the English Civil War, when he was initially commander of Farnham Castle [2] and thereafter commanded the forces of Surrey. [3] In 1649 he briefly served as Governor of Portsmouth .

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He entered politics after marrying the sister of Sir John Trevor, a fellow Cornish MP. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1642 and then returned as Member of Parliament for St Ives, Cornwall for 1647–1653 and again in 1659.

This is a list of High Sheriffs of Hampshire. This title was often given as High Sheriff of the County of Southampton until 1959.

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The family lived at Horkesley Hall, in Essex, and Heyshott Manor, in West Sussex.

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References

  1. ↑ 'The Rump Parliament 1648-53', Blair Worden, Cambridge University Press, p. 62
  2. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33288&strquery=feilder#s20 Journal of the House of Lords: volume 7: 1644 (1767–1830), pp. 325-327
  3. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33434&strquery=feilder#s8 Journal of the House of Lords: volume 7: 1644 (1767–1830), pp. 669–671
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