Sir John Bernard (23 August 1604 – 5 March 1674) of

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, Northamptonshire was an English landowner and briefly a Member of Parliament.

Biography

The eldest son of Baldwin Bernard of

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, he succeeded his father in 1610. He was knighted on 24 September 1661,William A. Shaw, ''The Knights of England'' (London, 1906) vol. II
p. 235
and on 31 March 1664 he was elected Member of Parliament for

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, but was unseated on 26 April in favour of Sir Henry Yelverton. In 1669 he sold Abington Park, having previously extended it, to William Thursby, a future MP for Northampton. He died in 1674. He had married firstly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir

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; they had four sons, who all predeceased him, and four daughters. His second wife,

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, was daughter of

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and

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and granddaughter (and only surviving descendant) of

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. They had no children.John. P. Ferris
BERNARD, Sir John (1604-74), of Abington, Northants.
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1660-1690'' (1983).

References

1604 births 1674 deaths People from Abington, Northamptonshire Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Members of Gray's Inn Knights Bachelor English MPs 1661–1679 {{1661-England-MP-stub