About John Borlase
Lived 1667 – 1754 (aged 86–87). John Borlase was an English and British politician.
John Borlase (1667 – April 1754) was an English politician. He sat as MP for St. Ives from 1705 till 1710.
He was baptised on 24 March 1667. He was the first son of John Borlase (died c. 1694) and Mary, the daughter of Richard Keigwin. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and matriculated in 1685. He entered the Middle Temple in 1685. On 17 March 1690, he married Lydia (died 1725), the daughter of Christopher Harris and they had nine sons (four predeceased him) and 4 daughters.
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English Member of Parliament (1667-1754)
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