Jonathan Rashleigh

Jonathan I Rashleigh (4 July 1591 – 1 May 1675), of Menabilly, near Fowey in Cornwall, was an English shipping-merchant, Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1614, 1621, 1625, April 1640 and November 1640, and 1661 and served as Sheriff of Cornwall in 1627. He supported the Royalist cause during the Civil War.

Family He was the second son and heir of John Rashleigh (1554–1624), MP for Fowey in 1588. He married twice. His first marriage was on 17 December 1614, to Anne Basset (c. 1595 – 1631), eldest daughter of Sir Robert Basset (1573–1641) of Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon in Devon, MP for Plymouth in 1593, by his wife Elizabeth Periam (1571–1635), the second daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Peryam, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. By Anne he had five children including: John Rashleigh (1621–1651), who pre-deceased his father, whose mural monument exists in Kenton Church. Devon. He married Joan Pollexfen (died 1668), daughter of John Pollexfen of Mothecombe, Devon, and was the father of Jonathan Rashleigh II (1642–1702), of Menabilly, many times MP for Fowey and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1687 Alice Rashleigh, wife of Sir Peter Courtney (c.1616 – 1670), MP, of Trethurfe, Cornwall. Elizabeth Rashleigh, who married her cousin from the senior Cornwall line, John Rashleigh (1619–1693) of Coombe, Fowey, MP for Fowey in 1661

His second marriage was in 1633 to Mary Harris (died 1674), daughter of John Harris of Radford, near Plymouth, Devon.