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John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville (4 December 1607 – 31 March 1682) was an English soldier, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1665 when he was created a peer and then sat in the House of Lords. BiographyFrescheville was the son of Sir Peter Frescheville of Staveley, Derbyshire and his first wife Joyce Fleetwood, daughter of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.[1] He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 23 June 1621, aged 14 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1624.[2] In 1628, Frescheville was elected Member of Parliament for Derbyshire and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He became Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire in 1630, holding the post until 1642. In 1634 he succeeded his father. He became a cornet of the bodyguard and a gentleman of the Privy Chamber in 1639. In 1642 he was a commissioner of array and became a captain of horse in the Royalist army. He was a colonel from 1643 to 1644 and became governor of Welbeck in 1645. Although a Royalist, he had useful contacts among the Parliamentarians and was required to pay a modest fine of £287 10s.4d conditional upon endowing a local chapel.[1] Just before the Restoration, Frescheville became involved in Royalist activities and crossed over to the Netherlands to obtain a fresh warrant for a peerage. He became Deputy Lieutenant again and a J.P. in July 1660, retaining the appointments to his death. From October 1660 to 1661 he was a captain the volunteer horse and in 1661 became captain of a troop in the Royal Horse Guards[3] until 1679. In 1661 he was elected MP for Derbyshire again for the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment from 1661 to 1665, commissioner for loyal and indigent officers in 1662 and commissioner for corporations from 1662 to 1663. In 1665 he was commissioner for oyer and terminer on the Northern circuit. He was created Baron Frescheville of Staveley in the Peerage of England on 16 March 1665. He was governor of York from 1670 until his death.[1] Frescheville died at the age of about 75 and was buried at Staveley.[1] FamilyFrescheville married firstly Bruce Nicholls, daughter of Francis Nicholls, barrister, of the Middle Temple and Ampthill, Bedfordshire. She died without issue on 10 April 1629. He married secondly in April 1630, Sarah Harington, daughter of Sir John Harington of Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire and had three daughters:[4]
Sarah died on 25 June 1665 and he married thirdly in December 1666, Anna Charlotte de Vic, daughter of Sir Henry de Vic, 1st Baronet, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter at Windsor Castle. She died without issue on 12 November 1717.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 History of Parliament Online - Frescheville, John {{s-start}}{{s-par|en}}{{succession box2. ^'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Flooke-Fyrmin', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 510-541. Date accessed: 20 June 2012 3. ^{{cite book | editor-last=Dalton | editor-first=Charles | title=English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661–1714 | volume=I 1661–1685 | publisher=Eyre & Spottiswode | location=London | year=1892 | url=https://archive.org/stream/englisharmylists01dalt | page=5}} 4. ^John Burke, A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance (1831), 214. | title=Member of Parliament for Derbyshire | before= Sir William Cavendish | before2= John Manners | with= Sir Edward Leeke | years=1628–1629 | after= Parliament suspended until 1640 }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Derbyshire | before= Viscount Mansfield | before2= John Ferrers | with= Lord Cavendish | years=1661–1665 | after= Lord Cavendish | after2= John Milward }}{{s-reg|en}}{{s-new|creation}}{{s-ttl| title = Baron Frescheville | years = 1665–1682}}{{S-non|reason=Extinct}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Frescheville, John}} 14 : 1607 births|1682 deaths|Barons in the Peerage of England|Peers of England created by Charles II|English landowners|Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford|Members of the Middle Temple|Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire|English MPs 1628–1629|English MPs 1661–1679|17th-century soldiers|People of the Stuart period|Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Derbyshire|Royal Horse Guards officers |
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