About John Chudleigh
Lived 1606 – 1634 (aged 27–28). John Chudleigh was an English politician.
Sir John Chudleigh (1606 – April 1634) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626.
Origins Chudleigh was the eldest son of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (d.1656) of Ashton, Devon, (whom he predeceased), and his wife Mary Strode, eldest daughter of Sir William Strode (died 1637), MP, of Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon.
Career He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 1 June 1621 aged 15 and was awarded BA in 1624 and MA in 1626. He was knighted at Plymouth as a captain on 28 September 1625. In 1626 he was elected Member of Parliament for East Looe. He was incorporated at Cambridge University in 1629.
Death Chudleigh died at the age of about 28, in his father's lifetime,
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· DBpedia: John Chudleigh (MP for East Looe)
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