FLEETWOOD, John (?1685-1745), of Missenden, Bucks.

John Fleetwood was descended from William Fleetwood, M.P., Queen’s serjeant and recorder of London, who acquired the reversion of the site of Missenden abbey in 1574.Lipscomb, Bucks. ii. 377; VCH Bucks. ii. 351. Succeeding as a child to an estate of £10,000 p.a.,HMC Portland, iv. 459. he sat for the county as a Tory in the 1713 Parliament. Re-elected in 1715 unopposed on a compromise arranged by his cousin Lord Cheyne,Verney Letters of 18th Cent. i. 315-20. the late Tory lord lieutenant, he voted against the Administration in all recorded divisions. His name was sent to the Pretender in 1721 as a probable supporter in the event of a rising.Stuart mss 65/16. Never standing again, he died Aug. 1745.