Sir John Trott, 1st Baronet ( – 14 July 1672) of

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, Hampshire was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1660 to 1672. He was the only son of John Trott, a haberdasher of London and Laverstoke and educated at

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.History of Parliament Online – Trott John
/ref> In 1660 Trott was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the Convention Parliament. He was created a

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, of Leverstoke in the County of Southampton, on 12 October 1660. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Andover in the

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and sat until his death. He died in 1672 and was buried in Laverstoke. He had married Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Sir Edmund Wright,

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in 1640. There was no male heir and the baronetcy thus became extinct. Their daughter Catherine, who had married Sir Hugh Stukeley, 2nd Baronet of Hinton, inherited his Laverstoke estate.

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