Family and Education
b. c. 1544, 1st s. of William Puckering of Flamborough, Yorks. by Anne, da. and h. of John Ashton of Great Lever, Lancs. educ. L. Inn 1559, called 1567. m. Jane, da. of Nicholas Chowne of Fairlawn, nr. Wrotham, Kent, 1s. 4da. Kntd. 1592.
Offices Held

J.p. Herts. from 1575, q. 1583; of counsel to St. Albans 1587; Lent reader, L. Inn 1577; member, council in the marches of Wales and j.p. many Welsh and border counties from 1577; sole justice Carmarthen circuit 1577 – 78, c.j. 1578 – 92, serjeant-at-law 1580, Queen’s serjeant 1588; justice of assize and j.p. S.E. counties 1590; ld. keeper and PC from 1592; high steward, Salisbury 1595–d.DNB; W. R. Williams, Hist. of the Great Sessions in Wales, 163; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 160; Lansd. 737, f. 139v; P. H. Williams, Council in the Marches of Wales, 354–5; W. J. Jones, Eliz. Court of Chancery, 45; Foss, Judges, v. 531; Strype, Annals, iv. 28; St. Albans Recs. 19; HMC Var. iv. 232.

Speaker of House of Commons 1584, 1586.

Main residences: Kew, Surr.; Weston, Herts.
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Commons 1558-1603
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PUCKERING, John (c.1544-96)

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Oxford 1644
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