Sir John Peyton, 1st Baronet (1561 - December 1616) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of England

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  at various times between 1593 and 1611.

Peyton was the eldest surviving son of Robert Peyton of Isleham and his wife Elizabeth Rich, daughter of Sir Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich

Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich

Sir Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich , was Lord Chancellor during the reign of King Edward VI of England. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated alms houses in Essex in 1564....

 of Rochford Hall and Leigh's Priory, Essex. He was a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 for the Isle of Ely from about 1584. He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father in 1590. From about 1591 he was a JP for Cambridgeshire. In 1593, he was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire  from 1593 to 1594. He became Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 in 1596 and was knighted on 1 November 1596. In 1604 he was elected again as MP for Cambridgeshire. He was created baronet

Peyton Baronets

There have been five Baronetcies created for members of the old established family of Peyton of Peyton Hall, all of whom were descended from Sir Robert Peyton of Isleham who died in 1518. All the Baronetcies are extinct....

 on 22 May 1611.

Peyton died at the age of 56 and was buried at Isleham on 19 December 1616.

Peyton married Alice Osborne, daughter of Sir Edward Osborne

Edward Osborne

Sir Edward Osborne , was one of the principal merchants of London in the later sixteenth century, and Lord Mayor of London in 1583.-Early life:Osborne was the eldest son of Richard Osborne of Ashford, Kent, by his wife, Jane Broughton...

, Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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, of St. Dionis Backchurch, London in 1580 and had six sons and five daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Edward

Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet

Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He fought for the Parlliamentary cause in the English Civil War....

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