| 词条 | John Alford (Parliamentarian) |
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John Alford (c. 1590 – 5 January 1649) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1626 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War. Early lifeAlford was the son of Edward Alford of Offington and his wife Judith Downing, daughter of Sir Edward Downing.[1] He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, on 13 February 1607 aged 16.[2] Political careerIn 1626 Alford was elected Member of Parliament for New Shoreham and in 1628 was elected MP for Arundel until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[3] The manors of Hamsey and Offington both came into his possession on the death of his father in 1632.[1] In April 1640, Alford was re-elected MP for New Shoreham in the Short Parliament and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and held the seat until 1648 when he was excluded in Pride's Purge.[3] DeathAlford died in 1649 and was buried at Broadwater, West Sussex where a monument in the South Transept Chapel was erected to his memory.[1] "Here lyeth the body of the truly honourable and religious John Alford of Offington, Esquire, who having finished his career, exchanged mortality for glory, Jan. 5, 1648. AEt. 59. Alford married Frances Bishopp, daughter of Sir Thomas Bishopp, 1st Baronet, of Parham, Sussex, M.P., and had two daughters Elizabeth, born 1620, who married Mr. Bickerstaff, and was Jane, who married Sir Thomas Eversfield. His widow outlived him for eleven years.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 Alford Association {{s-start}}{{s-par|en}}2. ^'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Abannan-Appletre', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 1-28. Date accessed: 10 December 2011 3. ^1 {{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}} | before= Anthony Stapley William Marlott | title=Member of Parliament for New Shoreham | with=William Marlott | years=1626 | after= William Marlott Robert Morley }} | before= Nicholas Jordain William Mills | title=Member of Parliament for Arundel | with= Henry Lord Maltravers | years=1628–1629 | after= Parliament suspended until 1640 }}{{succession box | before= Parliament suspended since 1629 | title=Member of Parliament for New Shoreham | with= William Marlott 1640–1646 |with2 Herbert Springet 1646–1648 | years=1640–1648 | after= Not represented after Pride's Purge }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Alford, John}} 7 : 1649 deaths|Year of birth uncertain|Roundheads|English MPs 1626|English MPs 1628–1629|English MPs 1640 (April)|English MPs 1640–1648 |
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