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Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet

1599 – 1683

English landowner and politician

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Lived 1599 – 1683 (aged 83–84). Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet was an English politician.

Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet (1599 – December 1683) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625 and 1626.

Monson was born in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, the son of Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet of South Carlton, Lincolnshire and his wife Margaret Anderson, the daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson. He studied law. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln. He was elected MP for Lincolnshire in 1626. He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles I on 2 February 1627.

In May 1641 he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. When the Civil War broke out, he retired to Oxford where was awarded D.C.L. from the University of Oxford on 1 November 1642. In 1645, acquired the estate of Broxbourne through his wife's inheritance and subsequently resided there. He was concerned in the surrender of the Royalist garrison at Oxford to the Parliamentary army in 1646.

Monson died at the age of 84 and was buried at South Carlton on 29 December 1683. His widow was buried there on 10 December 1692.

Monson married in about 1625 Ursula Oxenbridge, daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Sir Henry Coke of Broxbourne.

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1599
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Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1625 Parliament, Member of the 1626 Parliament

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English landowner and politician

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Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet was born in 1599.

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Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet died on 29 December 1683.

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Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet was a politician.

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· Wikidata: Q7527941

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