Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet

Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet (4 October 1627 – 18 January 1701) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England at various times between 1645 and 1701. During the Civil War, he fought on the Parliamentarian side as a colonel in the New Model Army.

Life Fagg was the son of John Fagg of Rye, in Sussex, and his wife Elizabeth Hudson (or Hodgson). He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then entered Gray's Inn.

Fagg sat as a Member of Parliament for Rye in the Long Parliament from 1645 to 1653. He was appointed one of the commissioners for the Sussex Militia in 1648.

From 1654 to 1659, Fagg was MP for Sussex in the First, Second and Third Protectorate Parliaments. After the death of Oliver Cromwell, Fagg was commissioned to raise a regiment of foot by the Rump Parliament in 1659 and was taken prisoner by forces loyal to the military regime when he tried to secure Portsmouth for Parliament.

In the 1690s, Fagg was breeding bullocks for the London market on the Wiston manor home farm.

"Near Steyning, the famous Sir John Fagg had a noble ancient seat, now possessed with a vast estate by his grandson, Sir Robert Fagg; but I mention the ancient gentleman on this occasion, that being entertained at his house, in the year 1697, he showed me in his park four bullocks of his own breeding, and of his own feeding, of so prodigious a size, and so excessively overgrown by fat, that I never saw any thing like them".

Fagg was still Colonel of one of the Sussex Militia regiments in 1697.

Death Fagg died on 18 January 1701, aged 73. and he may have been a distant relative.

In 1702 a large tract of undeveloped land owned by the Penn family in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was named Faggs Manor in his honor. The unincorporated hamlet of Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania still carries the name.