Sir Martin Lister (1602/03, Midhope, Yorkshire – 1670, Burwell, Lincolnshire) was an English farmer and politician who sat in the

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from 1640 to 1648.

Biography

Lister was born in the family of Michael and Mary Lister in Midhope, a small village to the north-west of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Lister was a landowner of Radcliffe,

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Thorpe Arnold Thorpe Arnold is a farming village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold in the district of Borough of Melton, Melton, which is approximately northeast of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. ...

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, and

Burwell, Lincolnshire Burwell is a small village and Civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A16 road, and north from Spilsby. The village covers approximately . History Now a village, Burwell was a medieval market ...

. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament in the

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for

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with sir Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman. In November 1640, together with

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene (1598 – 12 December 1679) was an English lawyer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. He was a Puritan and sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civ ...

M. Lister was re-elected MP for Brackley for the

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, where both of them sat until they were excluded under

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in 1648. Lister died in Burwell, small village in the

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district in Lincolnshire.

Family

Lister married firstly Mary Wenman, daughter of

Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman (1573–1640), was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1625. He was created Viscount Wenman in the Peerage of Ireland in 1628. Life Wenman was the eldest son of ...

of Oxfordshire. After her death, he married secondly in 1633 Susan(na) Thornhurst (1600–1669), widow of Sir Gifford Thornhurst, 1st Baronet, daughter of Sir Alexander Temple of St. Margaret's, Rochester, Kent and sister of the regicide,

James Temple James Temple (c. 1606–1680) was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the List of regicides of Charles I, regicide of Charles I of England, Charles I. Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was ...

. Her trustee for the marriage settlement was her half brother

Sir Thomas Peniston Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet (c. 1591–1644) was a 17th-century member of the gentry who received one of the first baronetcies. In 1637 he was sheriff of Oxfordshire and in 1640, he was a member of parliament for Westbury. Early life Sir ...

. By his first wife Mary Wenman, Lister had his eldest daughter Agnes Lister (Hartopp) who was born in January 1629, in small village of Thorp Arnold. By his second wife Susan Thornhurst, Lister had sons Dr.

Martin Lister Martin Lister (12 April 1639 – 2 February 1712) was an English natural history, naturalist and physician. His daughters Anne Lister (illustrator), Anne and Susanna Lister, Susanna were two of his illustrators and engravers. J. D. Woodley, 'L ...

(1639–1712), the physician and scientist, Richard Lister of Thorpe Arnold (1651–1704), esq, heir apparent of father, and Michael Lister of South Carlton, esq. His stepdaughter Frances Agnes Thornhurst was the mother of

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg (née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references; 5 June 1660 (Old Style) – 18 October 1744), was an English courtier who rose to be one of th ...

and of

Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell (''née'' Jennings, previously Hamilton; – 1731), also called La Belle Jennings, was a maid of honour to the Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, Duchess of York and, like her sister Sarah Churchill, Duchess of ...

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References

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External links

National Portrait Gallery : Portrait of Sir Martin Lister, Knight, 1626, by Robert Whight

Tate : Portrait of Susanna Thornhurst (nee Temple, later lady Lister), 1620, by Cornelius Johnson (1593 — 1661)
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