Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet (May 1622 – 3 July 1708), of

Lydiard Tregoze Lydiard Tregoze is a small village and civil parish on the western edge of Swindon in the county of Wiltshire, in the south-west of England. Its name has in the past been spelt as Liddiard Tregooze. The parish includes the small village of Hoo ...

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, and of

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, was an English Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was the sixth son of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze and inherited the baronetcy on the death of his nephew Sir John St John, 2nd Baronet (c. 1637–1657), the son and heir of Oliver, the son and heir apparent of Sir John, 1st Baronet. In 1656, Sir Walter was Member of Parliament for

(1656–1658 and 1659); for

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(1660–1679); and again for Wiltshire (1679–1681 and 1690–1695). He was famed for "piety and moral virtues". In 1700, Sir Walter signed a trust deed that led to the formation of a school which later became the

Sir Walter St John's School Sir Walter St John's was a boys' school in Battersea. As the population and the English educational system changed, so did the school. The school was colloquially known as "Sinjuns" and was finally closed in 1986-7. Early history In September 1 ...

of Battersea. Sir Walter died in his 87th year on 3 July 1708, and was buried on 9 July at Battersea. On his death the baronetcy passed to a grandson Henry St John who was created a

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in 1716.

Family

Sir Walter married, in or before 1651,

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a daughter of

Oliver St John Sir Oliver St John (; c. 1598 – 31 December 1673) was an English barrister, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640-53. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Early life St John was the son o ...

, of

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county Northampton,

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(1648–1660) and his first wife Johanna daughter and heir of Sir James Altham. Johanna died three years before Sir Walter. They had thirteen children, but seven of them did not survive to adulthood. His daughter, Anne St. John, married Thomas Cholmondeley, twice MP for

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

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