He was knighted on 24 September 1661,[2] and on 31 March 1664 he was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton, but was unseated on 26 April in favour of Sir Henry Yelverton.
In 1669 he sold Abington Park, having previously extended it, to William Thursby, a future MP for Northampton. He died in 1674.
He had married firstly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Clement Edmondes; they had four sons, who all predeceased him, and four daughters. His second wife, Elizabeth, was daughter of John and Susanna Hall and granddaughter (and only surviving descendant) of William Shakespeare. They had no children.[1]
Referencesedit
^ abJohn. P. Ferris, BERNARD, Sir John (1604-74), of Abington, Northants. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690 (1983).
^William A. Shaw, The Knights of England (London, 1906) vol. II, p. 235.
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