John Wentworth

John Wentworth (1564–1613), of Gosfield Hall, Essex, was an English politician.

Early life

He was the only son of Sir John Wentworth of Little Horkesley and Gosfield Hall, Essex, and the former Elizabeth Heydon (d. ) (a daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon and his first wife Anne Drury). His only sister, also named Elizabeth Wentworth (d. 1627), married firstly Christopher St Lawrence, 10th Baron Howth, which ended in a legal separation in about 1605, before she married Sir Robert Newcomen, 1st Baronet. Together, they were the parents of at least one son and four daughters, including: William Wentworth (1588–1604), who died unmarried. Elizabeth Wentworth (b. ), who married Charles Garneys, son of Nicholas Garneys. Diana Wentworth (b. ), who married Lewis Bowes. Anne Wentworth (1591–1633), who married Sir Edward Gostwick, 2nd Baronet, in 1608. Cicely Wentworth (1593–1642), who married Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea (brother to Lady Catherine Finch), in 1609.

He died in 1613 and was buried at Gosfield. He was succeeded in the family estates, that "splendid inheritance", by his eldest son Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, who dissipated the wealth accumulated by his father. His widow remarried the soldier, diplomat and scholar Sir Edward Hoby. She died in 1618.

Descendants Through his daughter Cicely, he was a grandfather of four grandchildren, including Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea.