About Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet
Lived 1634 – 1696 (aged 61–62). Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet was a politician.
Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet (c. 1636 – 15 December 1696) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1690.
Background Knatchbull was the eldest son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet and his first wife Dorothy Westrow, daughter of Thomas Westrow. Knatchbull was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and matriculated in 1652. He was then called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1655.
Career In April 1660, Knatchbull was elected Member of Parliament for New Romney together with his father until the following year.
Knatchbull died aged sixty and was buried in Mersham Hatch in Kent.
Family
Knatchbull married Jane Monins, daughter of Sir Edward Monins, 2nd Baronet on 17 January 1659, His sons having all predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Thomas.
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