FLOYER, John (c.1681-1762), of Hints Hall, nr. Tamworth, Staffs.

Floyer, son of Sir John Floyer the physician, was descended from Ralph Floyer of the Middle Temple, who acquired Hints Hall in 1601. Returned as a Tory for Tamworth in 1741, he voted against the Government on the chairman of the elections committee, but was soon afterwards unseated on petition, never standing again. He appears in a list of leading Jacobite sympathizers prepared for the French foreign office in 1743.Stuart mss 248/151. He died 4 June 1762.Shaw, Staffs. ii. 21.