John Floyer ( 1681 – 4 June 1762)
was an English politician from Staffordshire.
Early life
John Floyer was born circa 1681. He was the oldest son of the physician
Sir John Floyer
Sir John Floyer (3 March 1649 – 1 February 1734) was an English physician and author.
Early life
John Floyer was born on 3 March 1649. He was the third child and second son of Elizabeth Babington and Richard Floyer, of Hints Hall, a since demo ...
of
Hints Hall, near
Lichfield
Lichfield () is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated south-east of the county town of Stafford, north-east of Walsall, north-west of ...
in Staffordshire. His mother Mary was the daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Archbold of
Abbots Bromley
Abbots Bromley is a village and civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire and lies approximately east of Stafford, England. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the settlement name Abbots ...
, Staffordshire, the chancellor of the diocese of Lichfield. She was the widow of Arthur Fleetwood of Lichfield and mother of
Henry Fleetwood, the Member of Parliament (MP) for
Preston.
Career
At the
1741 general election, he was elected as a Tory MP for
Tamworth. However, his election was overturned on
petition
A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer called supplication.
In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to an officia ...
on 22 March 1742,
and he never stood for Parliament again.
In 1743 his name was included in a list of leading
Jacobite sympathizers prepared for the French foreign office.
References
1680s births
1762 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1741–1747
People from Hints, Staffordshire
English Jacobites
Tory MPs (pre-1834)
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