Sir John Hartopp, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Hartopp, 3rd Baronet (1637?–1722) was an English politician, a nonconformist and early Whig.

Life Born about 1637, he was the only son of Sir Edward Hartopp, 2nd Baronet, of Freeby, Leicestershire, by Mary, daughter of Sir John Coke, of Melbourne, Derbyshire. He succeeded as third baronet in 1658. When in London, of which he became an alderman, he attended the Independent meeting-house in Leadenhall Street, over which John Owen presided, and continued a member under successive ministers until his death.

Hartopp represented Leicestershire in the parliaments of 1678–9, 1679, and 1680–1. He strongly supported the Exclusion Bill in 1681. Under James II he was heavily fined for nonconformity. He died on 1 April 1722, aged 85, and was buried on the 11th in Stoke Newington Church beside his wife, who had died on 9 November 1711. Isaac Watts, who resided with the Hartopps for five years at Stoke Newington, preached their funeral sermons.

One of Sir John Hartopp's daughters was Frances, who married Nathaniel Gould (1661–1728), merchant, politician, shipbuilder, and a Governor of the Bank of England from 1711 to 1713 at the time when the South Sea Company was founded. The Goulds lived at Fleetwood House. One of their children married Thomas Cooke, also Governor of the Bank of England from 1737 to 1740. Mary Gould married Sir Francis St John, of Thorpe Hall (Peterborough),