Sir John Cropley, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Cropley, 2nd Baronet (15 July 1663 – 22 October 1713), of Red Lion Square, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1710.

Early life Cropley was baptised at St. James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, on 23 July 1663, the only son of Sir Edward Cropley of Clerkenwell and his wife Martha née Wilson, daughter of Robert Wilson, a London merchant. He succeeded his father in 1665 and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather in November 1676. He studied at Clare College, Cambridge in 1678. He travelled abroad in Italy, France, and Germany from 1686 to 1689 with Anthony Ashley-Cooper who became a firm friend.

Since Lord Shaftesbury had moved abroad because of ill-health, Cropley became a guardian of his friend's child and estate for the next three years. He did not stand for Parliament again and died unmarried on 22 October 1713. He left an estate worth about £4,000 p.a. to Thomas Micklethwayte, and the baronetcy became extinct.