About John Rashleigh
Lived 1619 – 1693 (aged 74). John Rashleigh was an English politician.
John Rashleigh (21 January 1619 – 13 March 1693) of Coombe, near Fowey in Cornwall, was MP for Fowey from 1661 to 1679. He was a member of a branch of the more prominent Rashleigh family of Menabilly, near Fowey.
Rashleigh was the only surviving son of Robert Rashleigh (1585 – c. 1667), MP, of Coombe, near Fowey, Cornwall, by his first wife Mary Trefusis, daughter of Thomas Trefusis of Landew.
He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1637 and entered Gray's Inn in 1639.
He married in 1642 his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter of Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly, Cornwall and had 5 sons and 2 daughters
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English politician (1619-1693)
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John Rashleigh was born on 21 January 1619.
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John Rashleigh died on 13 March 1693.
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John Rashleigh was a politician.
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· DBpedia: John Rashleigh (1619–1693) of Coombe
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