CORYTON, Sir John, 2nd Bt. (1648-90), of Newton Ferrers, nr. Callington, Cornw.

Coryton, who in the Convention had voted against the transfer of the crown, was again returned for Callington in 1690. He was classified as a Tory in Lord Carmarthen’s (Sir Thomas Osborne†) analysis of the House, but he made no significant contribution to the 1690 session and died during the recess. Coryton was buried at St. Mellion, Cornwall on 30 July and was succeeded in his baronetcy by his younger brother. Shortly after Coryton’s death his widow, who had brought ‘a great jointure’, married his steward, James Tillie, with whom, according to a contemporary, she had been ‘too familiar before’. Polsue, Complete Paroch. Hist. Cornw. iv. 79–81; CSP Dom. 1687–9, p. 323.