Sir Paulet St John, 1st Baronet (7 April 1704 – 8 June 1780) was a British politician who sat in the

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between 1734 and 1754.

Life

He was born the eldest son of Ellis St John (formerly Mews) of Farley Chamberlayne by his second wife Martha, the daughter and eventually heiress of Edward Goodyear of

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, Hampshire. He was educated at

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(1722) and inherited his father's estates in 1729. He completed the building, started by his father, of the new house at Dogmersfield. He hunted and owned racehorses. In September 1733 whilst out hunting on a horse he later named ''Beware Chalk Pit'' he leaped into a chalk pit 25ft (7.6m) deep. Horse and rider survived unharmed and the following year ''Beware Chalk Pit'' won the Hunters Plate on Worthy Downs. A monument was erected to commemorate these events at

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. He was pricked

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for 1727–28, appointed woodward of the New Forest in 1764 and elected

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for 1772–73. He was also created a Baronet in 1772. He was returned to Parliament as the member for

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in 1734, sitting until 1741. He was elected to serve

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from 1741 to 1747 and Winchester again from 1751 to 1754. He died in 1780.

Family

He married three times: firstly Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir James Rushout, 2nd Baronet, MP, of Northwick Park, Worcestershire; secondly Mary, the daughter of John Waters of Brecon and the widow of Sir Halswell Tynte, 3rd Baronet, with whom he had 3 sons; and thirdly Jane, the daughter and heiress of R. Harris of Silkstead, Hampshire and widow of William Pescod of Winchester. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son

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Life

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