Sir John Bernard, 2nd Baronet (November 1630 – 25 June 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1660.
Bernard was born at Northampton, the son of Sir Robert Bernard, 1st Baronet and his first wife Elizabeth Tallakerne, daughter of Sir John Tallakerne.[1] His father had been MP for Huntingdon in 1640. Bernard was educated at Huntingdon and was admitted at Middle Temple on 21 January 1645 and at Christ's College, Cambridge on 12 April 1646.[2]
Bernard died at the age of 48 and was buried at Brampton church, Northamptonshire, where he is commemorated on a marble monument, against the south wall.
Bernard married secondly Grace Shuckburgh, daughter of Sir Richard Shuckburgh, of Shuckburgh, Warwickshire and his wife Grace Holte, daughter of Sir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet. They had no children. After his death, she married secondly Thomas Mariet. She died in 1721.
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^Arthur Collins The English baronetage: containing a genealogical and historical account
^"Bernard, John (BNRT645J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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