About John Major
John Major was a politician.
John Major (died 1629) was a Southampton cloth merchant and served as member of parliament for Southampton in 1628.
He was the son of John Major, a Southampton brewer who probably originally came from Jersey, and his wife Joyce. Between 1603 and 1614 Major served terms as constable, steward, bailiff and sheriff of Southampton, before becoming an alderman in 1615. He served as mayor in 1615-16.
In 1628 he was chosen to serve in parliament alongside his business partner George Gallop.
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