About John Luther
John Luther was a politician.
John Luther (c. 1739β1786) was an English politician.
Life The son of Richard Luther of Ongar, Essex, he was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1756, graduating B.A. and M.A. in 1761. He had entered the Middle Temple to study law in 1755.
He was elected a member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Essex from 13 December 1763 to 1784. A Whig, he left his wife in 1764 and went to Paris at the time when the government was pursuing John Wilkes. Richard Watson persuaded him to return and be reconciled with his wife and family. daughter of Bennet Alexander Bennet (1702β1745) and his wife Mary Ash (born 1719), who married again in 1747 to Richard Bull. Levina's brother was Richard Henry Alexander Bennet.
His nephew Francis Fane of Spettisbury (1752β1813), was MP for Lyme Regis and Dorset and inherited Luther's Ongar estate.
Luther left an estate at Petworth, Sussex to Bishop Watson.
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