John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice
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John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice (1649 – 21 June 1698) of
Trerice Trerice (pronounced ''Tre-rice'') is an historic manor in the parish of Newlyn East (Newlyn in Pydar), near Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The surviving Tudor manor house known as Trerice House is located at Kestle Mill, three miles east ...
, Cornwall, was an English politician who sat in the
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at various times between 1666 and 1687 when he inherited his peerage.


Origins

Arundell was the son and heir of Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice, by his wife Gertrude Bagge, daughter of Sir James Bagge, of Saltram, Devon, and widow of Sir
Nicholas Slanning Sir Nicholas Slanning, 1 September 1606 to August 1643, was a soldier and landowner from Devon who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War and was mortally wounded at Bri ...
. He was baptised on 1 September 1649.


Career

In 1666 Arundell was elected
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in the
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for
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, Cornwall, and sat until 1679. He was re-elected for Truro in 1685 and sat until 1687 when he moved to the
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, having inherited the title
Baron Arundell of Trerice Baron Arundell of Trerice, in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1664 for the Royalist soldier and politician Richard Arundell. He was the second son of Sir John Arundell and the great-grandson of ...
on the death of his father.


Marriages and children

Arundell married twice: *Firstly to Margaret Acland (died 1691), daughter of Sir John Acland, 3rd Baronet (died 1655), of Columb John, Devon, by his wife Margaret Rolle, a daughter of Denys Rolle (1614–1638) of Bicton and
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in Devon,
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in 1636. **
John Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell John Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Trerice (died Sep 1706) of Trerice, Cornwall, who inherited his peerage on the death of his father in 1698. Origins Arundell was the son and heir of John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice, Cornwall by ...
(1678–1706), eldest son and heir. *Secondly to Barbara Slingsby, daughter of
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, of Scriven, Yorkshire, and widow of Sir Richard Mauleverer, 4th Baronet, of Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, by whom he had children:Vivian, 1887, p.14 ** Richard Arundell (died 1759), 2nd son, MP for
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, Clerk of the Pipe, Surveyor of the Works and Master of the Mint.Pedigree of ''Arundell of Trerice'', Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.1

/ref> He married Lady Frances Manners, a daughter of
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG (18 September 1676 – 22 February 1721), styled Lord Roos from 1679 to 1703 and Marquess of Granby from 1703 to 1711, was a British Whig politician sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1 ...
, KG, (1676–1721), but died childless.


References

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