John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham (15 January 1656 – 21 January 1710) was an English landowner and politician.

Ashburnham was the son of William Ashburnham and the grandson of John Ashburnham. His mother was the Honourable Elizabeth, daughter of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett

John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett

John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1621 and was later raised to the peerage....

. He sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Hastings

Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1679 to 1681 and again from 1685 to 1689. As a baron of the Cinque Ports

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 he was one of the holders of the canopy at the coronation of James II

James II of England

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 in 1685 and coronation of William

William III of England

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 and Mary

Mary II of England

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 in 1688. He is thought to have become disillussioned with James and to have welcomed the accession of William and Mary. In 1689 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashburnham, of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex. He later served as Custos Rotulorum

Custos rotulorum

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 of Breconshire from 1702 to 1710.

Lord Ashburnham married Bridget, daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Vaughan

Charles Vaughan (of Porthamal)

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 of Porthammel House, Breconshire, at Westminster Abbey

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 in 1677, from which substantial estates in Wales

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 came into the family. They had several children. He died at Southampton Street

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, Bloomsbury

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, London

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, in January 1710, aged 54, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William

William Ashburnham, 2nd Baron Ashburnham

William Ashburnham, 2nd Baron Ashburnham was an English landowner and politician.Ashburnham was the eldest son of John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham, and Bridget, daughter of Walter Vaughan, of Porthammel House, Brecknockshire. He sat as Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1702 to 1710, a...

. William was in his turn succeeded by his younger brother, John

John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham

John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham was a British peer.-Career:Ashburnham was the second son of John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham and his wife, Bridget, daughter of Walter Vaughan from Brecon, south Wales, who had inherited Pembrey...

, who was created Earl of Ashburnham in 1730. Lady Ashburnham died in May 1719.