Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet (1649–1709), of Forty Hall, Enfield, and Denmark Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1709.

Early life Minchington Hall as it appeared around 1776 in Robert Goadby's A New Display of the Beauties of England (1776). Wolstenholme was baptized on 19 October 1649, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wolstenholme, 2nd Baronet, of Minchendon, Edmonton, Middlesex, and his wife, Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Phineas Andrews of St Olave's, Hart Street, London.

The Wolstenholme family acquired wealth and social position in Middlesex through service in the customs office. The second baronet built Minchington Hall in Southgate, Middlesex, after 1664.

Wolstenholme was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1665, and at Inner Temple in 1668. He married on 27 May 1675, aged 25, Mary Raynton (died 1691),

Death and legacy Wolstenholme died in May 1709 leaving four sons and four daughters by his first wife. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Nicholas who was in such straitened circumstances by then that his estates were in the hands of trustees and in 1712 he was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison by his creditors. His daughter Rebecca married Michael Harvey of Combe, Surrey.