Henry St John (MP for Huntingdon)

For other people named Henry St John, see Henry St John (disambiguation).

Sir Henry St John (1590-c.1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1625.

St John was a younger son of Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso and his wife Dorothy Reid, daughter of Sir John Rede or Reid, of Odington, Gloucestershire.^[1] He was knighted on 24 July 1619 at Bletsoe together with his brother Beauchamp, MP.^[2][3] Apart from Beauchamp, four other brothers, Oliver, Rowland, Anthony and Alexander were to become MPs. ^[4]

In 1621 St John was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon. He was re-elected MP for Huntingdon in 1624 and again in 1625.^[5]

St John died without issue.^[1] His eldest brother Oliver inherited the Barony and became Earl of Bolingbroke.

References

1. Archaeologia Cambrensis (1861)
2. Knights of England
3. John Nichols The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities of King Charles I Volume 3
4. "ST. JOHN, Sir Henry (1590-c.1642), of Bletsoe, Beds. and St. Bartholomew-the-Great, London". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
5. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 176-239.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Christopher Hatton Sir Miles Fleetwood	Member of Parliament for Huntingdon 1621–1622 With: Sir Miles Sandys, Bt 1621–1622 Sir Arthur Mainwaring 1624–1625	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Mainwaring John Goldsborough