John Bush
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1773-74
About John Bush
Born 1745.
John Bush (c. 1745 – date of death unknown) was an English landowner and officer of militia who served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1773.
Early life Born about 1745, a son of Jonathan Bush of Burcot, Bush was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School). On 14 December 1762 he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, aged seventeen. His only graduation recorded in Alumni Oxonienses is as a Doctor of Civil Law on 8 July 1773.
Career Bush is noted as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in July 1773. He was a Steward of the Club of Old Abingdonians in 1774 and in the Enclosure Award of 1776 was one of the two principal landowners in the parish of Burcot.
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Who was John Bush?
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1773-74
When was John Bush born?
John Bush was born in 1745.
Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: John Bush (High Sheriff)
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