HART, Sir John (d.1604), of St. Swithin’s, London and Scampton, Lincs.

Family and Education

s. of Ralph Hart of Sproston Court, Yorks. m. (1) 2da.; (2) 1586 Anne, da. and h. of one Haynes, wid. of Anthony Cage, salter of London, ?s.p. Kntd. ?1590.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 367; Remembrancia, 311; CSP Dom. Add. 1566-90, p. 224; London Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxv), 149; PCC 1 Harte; A. B. Beaven, Aldermen, i. 419; ii. 41.

Offices Held

Common councilman, London 1567, warden, Grocers’ Co. 1573 – 74; alderman 1580, sheriff 1579 – 80, ld. mayor 1589 – 90; treasurer, St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1573 – 74, president 1593 – 1604; surveyor gen. London hospitals 1594 – 1602, comptroller gen. 1602 – 04; gov. Muscovy Co. 1583, 1591, 1592, 1596, 1597, 1598, 1600; member, Levant Co. 1590; gov. East India Co. 1602.Vestry Mins. of St. Bart’s Exchange, ed. C. Freshfield, 1; Wardens of Grocers’ Co. ed. Grantham, 21; Beaven, ii. 41; T. S. Willan, Early Hist. Russia Co. 286; CSP Dom. 1581–90, p. 567.

Parlimentarian

HART, Sir John (d.1604), of St. Swithin’s, London and Scampton, Lincs.

Main residences: St. Swithin's, London; Scampton, Lincs.

Author

H.G.O.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

HART, Sir John (-d.1604)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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