About John Stanford
Lived 1501 – 1603 (aged 101–102). John Stanford was a politician.
John Stanford (died 1603) was an English lawyer and politician.
He was the son of John Stanford I (d. 1603), Mayor of Leicester and twice MP for Leicester (UK Parliament constituency). He trained as a lawyer, entering Gray's Inn in 1586.
He sat as Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Leicester in 1597. becoming recorder in the summer of 1603.
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English politician (d.1603) of Leicester and Elmesthorpe, Leics
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John Stanford was born in 1501.
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