John Westpray (died 1413), of Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician.
He married a woman named Maud, who also died in 1413, and they had one daughter. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dorchester in 1399. [1]
Henry IV, also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He asserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philip IV of France, to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest, over three hundred years prior, whose mother tongue was English rather than French.
Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester was a country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1762 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milton. He was particularly associated with the reshaping of Milton Abbey and the creation of the village of Milton Abbas in Dorset, south-west England.
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS, FRCP was an English peer. He was the son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, and his wife, the former Gertrude Talbot, daughter of George Talbot and Elizabeth Reyner, and cousin of the Earl of Shrewsbury.
John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft was a Knight of the Shire for Huntingdonshire and Somerset, Speaker of the House of Commons, Treasurer of the Household, Chief Butler of England, Treasurer of the Exchequer and Seneschal of Landes and Aquitaine.
Denis Bond was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1656. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and served as president of the Council of State during the Commonwealth.
William Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire, was Speaker of the House of Commons from May 1413 to June 1413 when he was serving as MP for Dorset.
John Doreward was a Serjeant-at-law and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.
John Trenchard of Warmwell, near Dorchester was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.
John Whiteway was an English wool merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660.
James Gould (1593–1676) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1676.
John Parkins (1571–1640) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.
John Bushrode was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.
John Hill (1589–1657) of Dorchester was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.
John Pitt of Encombe House, Dorset was a British MP for 35 years from which there remains one reported speech to Parliament.
Sir Robert Cary of Cockington, Devon, was twelve times Member of Parliament for Devon, in 1407, 1410, 1411, May 1413, April 1414, Mar. 1416, 1417, 1419, May 1421, 1422, 1425 and 1426. Much of his later life was devoted to regaining the many estates and other landholdings forfeited to the crown following his father's attainder in 1388. He was an esquire in the households of King Richard II (1377–1399) and of the latter's half-brother John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter.
John Spencer was an English courtier and Member of Parliament.
Sir Roger Leche (1361-1416) was a medieval British courtier, Member of Parliament, and Lord High Treasurer.
William Newton, of Swell, Somerset, was an English politician.
Walter Tracy of Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician and lawyer.
The following have been elected mayors of Dorchester, Dorset, England: