JEPHSON, Sir John (c.1579-1638), of Froyle, Hants and Mallow Castle, co. Cork

Family and Education

b. c. 1579, 2nd s. of William Jephson (d. aft. 1614), of Froyle and Mary, da. of Sir John Dannett of Bruntingsthorpe, Leics.; bro. of Sir William*.M.D. Jephson, Anglo-Irish Misc. 16. m. (1) c.1607, Elizabeth (d. 26 July 1624), Lismore Pprs. ed. A.B. Grosart (ser. 2), iii. 124. da. and h. of Sir Thomas Norreys of Mallow Castle, 4s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.); Jephson, 16, 21. (2) by 1630, CSP Ire. 1625-32, p. 567. Mary, da. of Sir Henry Duke of co. Longford, wid. of Richard Gifford of Castle Jordan, King’s Co., and Sir Francis Ruish of Castle Jordan, co. Meath, s.p. CPR [I] Chas. I, 608; HMC Var. iii. 252. Kntd. 18 Dec. 1603; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 129. suc. bro. in Froyle estate 1615, aged 36. C142/352/144. d. 15 May 1638. C142/585/100. sig. Jo[hn] Jephson.

Offices Held

Capt. of ft. 1597 – 99, horse [I] 1599–1608. APC, 1597–8, p. 143; CSP Ire. 1597–8, p. 322; 1606–8, p. 538; C.M. Stopes, Life of Henry, Earl of Southampton, 143.

PC [I] 1609–d.; CSP Ire. 1608–10, p. 218; CSP Ire. Addenda 1625–60, p. 128. MP [I] 1613–15; CSP Carew, 1603–24, p. 137. commr. religion [I] 1615, survey [I] 1622. Cent. Kent Stud. U269/1/Hi212; CSP Ire. 1615–25, pp. 75, 346; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, p. 231, pt. 4, p. 89; V. Treadwell, Buck and Ire. 77–9.

Freeman, Mallow 1611; Jephson, 21. commr. subsidy, Hants 1621 – 22, 1624; C212/22/20, 21, 23. lt.-gov. of Portsmouth, Hants 1627–30; APC, 1627, pp. 166, 171; CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 608. commr. oyer and terminer, Hants 1628; APC, 1627–8, p. 318. forester, New Forest by 1635–d. Cal. New Forest Docs. ed. D.J. Stagg (Hants Rec. ser. v), 67.

Parlimentarian

JEPHSON, Sir John (c.1579-1638), of Froyle, Hants and Mallow Castle, co. Cork

Main residences: Froyle, Hants.; Mallow Castle, co. Cork, [I].

Author

V.C.D.M.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

JEPHSON, Sir John (c.1579-1638)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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