John Lisle

Sir John Lisle (1610 – 11 August 1664) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. He was assassinated by an agent of the crown while in exile in Switzerland.

Education and career Lisle was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and graduated with a BA in 1626. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1633. In April 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Winchester in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Winchester for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He was master of St Cross Hospital, Winchester from 1644 to 1649. Alice was executed in 1685 at Winchester on a charge of harbouring fugitives after the Battle of Sedgemoor. The conduct of the trial, where Judge Jeffreys, presiding, applied intense pressure on the jury to convict, caused much unfavourable comment; and the refusal of King James II to heed pleas for mercy gave rise to a belief that he was taking posthumous revenge on Sir John himself. Another of John's children, Bridget, married Leonard Hoar, the 3rd President of Harvard College.