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Oliver St John (c. 1598–1673) was an English statesman and judge.

Oliver St John English judge and politician

Sir Oliver St John, was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

Oliver St John may also refer to:

Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso English peer

Oliver St John of Bletsoe, 1st Baron St John of Bletso was an English peer. He was the son of Sir John St John of Bletsoe and Spelsbury and his first wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir William Waldegrave. His paternal great-great-great-grandfather Sir Oliver St John of Bletsoe, Spelsbury and Lydiard Tregoze was the husband of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, great-great-granddaughter of Roger de Beauchamp, who was summoned to Parliament as Baron Beauchamp of Bletso from 1363 to 1379. Since then that title had not been assumed, although St John was considered to be the line of heir. On 13 January 1559 he was raised to the peerage himself as Baron St John of Bletso, in the county of Bedfordshire.

Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1588 until 1596 when he inherited the peerage as Baron St John of Bletso.

Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison English politician

Sir Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison was an English soldier and politician who became Lord Deputy of Ireland.

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Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney is a retired Canadian political scientist and academic, and Scottish peer. He was a lecturer at University College London, England, before moving to the University of Manitoba, Canada where he rose to become Professor of Political Studies. He retired from academia in 1998, the year he succeeded to the Earldom of Orkney, and was appointed a senior scholar by Manitoba.

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Baron St John of Bletso, in the County of Bedford, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1582 for Oliver St John.

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Viscount Bolingbroke is a current title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1712 for Hon. Henry St John. He was simultaneously made Baron St John, of Lydiard Tregoze in the County of Wilts. Since 1751 the titles are merged with the titles of Viscount St John and Baron St John in the same Peerage.

Viscount Grandison title in the Peerage of Ireland

Viscount Grandison, of Limerick, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1620 for Sir Oliver St John, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was the descendant and namesake of Oliver St John, whose elder brother Sir John St John was the ancestor of the Barons St John of Bletso and the Earls of Bolingbroke. Moreover, St John's nephew Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, of Lydiard Tregoze, was the ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke and the Viscounts St John.

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Oliver St John, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke, styled Lord St John of Bletsoe from 1642 to 1646, was a British peer and landowner in Bedfordshire.