CLOTWORTHY, Sir John (d. 1665), of Massereene, co. Antrim, and St Andrew’s, Holborn, Mdx.

Family and Education

1st s. of Sir Hugh Clotworthy of Massereene and Mary, da. of Roger Langford of Muckmaire, co. Antrim. m. bef. 1643, Margaret, 1st da. of Roger Jones, 1st Visct. Ranelagh, 1da. Kntd. 26 Nov. 1626. cr. Visct. Massereene and baron of Lough Neagh, 21 Nov. 1660.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 191. suc. fa. 12 Feb. 1630.CP. d. 25 Sept. 1665.Lodge, Peerage, iii. 63n.

Offices Held

Irish: MP, co. Antrim 1634–5. 16 Oct. 1654CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 63. Commr. monopoly, licensing of alehouses, wines and spirits, E. Ulster bef. 1641. 16 Oct. 1654R. Armstrong, Protestant War: the ‘British’ of Ireland and the wars of the Three Kingdoms (Manchester, 2005), 1. Commr. assessment, co. Antrim, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). J.p. cos. Down and Antrim bef. Jan. 1657.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 623. Commr. uniting and dividing parishes bef. Aug. 1657.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 645; St J.D. Seymour, The Puritans in Ire. (Oxford, 1921), 145. Member for co. Antrim, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 170. Commr. managing affairs of Ireland, 8 Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 255. PC, 1 Dec. 1660.CP. Commr. 1649 officers, 2 Mar. 1661;NAI, Lodge’s MSS, 1.A.53.55, f. 130. ct. of claims for Irish land settlement, 19 Mar. 1661.Lodge, Peerage, iii. 63n. Custos rot. co. Londonderry 1663–d.CP.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for Irish affairs, 23 Jan. 1643;CJ ii. 940a. Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643;A. and O. cttee. of navy and customs, 2 Nov. 1643;CJ iii. 243b, 299a. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645;LJ vii. 468a. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645; cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645; cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646.A. and O. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 12 Oct. 1646, 7 Apr. 1647;CJ iv. 690b, 693b; LJ ix. 127b. cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. for compounding, 8 Feb. 1647.A. and O.; LJ ix. 449a. Member, Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 7 Apr. 1647.CJ v. 135b. Commr. determining differences, Adventurers in Ireland, 1 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Military: col. of ft. British forces in Ulster, c.Dec. 1641-c.1648.Regimental Hist. ii. 652–3. Capt. of boats, Lough Neagh, 28 Jan. 1642.Lodge, Peerage, iii. 64n. Col. of ft. royal army in Ire. 7 Mar. 1661.Lodge, Peerage, iii. 63n.

Academic: FRS, 20 May 1663.CP.

: co. Antrim and St Andrew’s, Mdx., Holborn.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, aft. 1648.NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CLOTWORTHY, Sir John (d. 1665), of Massereene, co. Antrim, and St Andrew’s, Holborn, Mdx.

Will

14 Sept. 1665, pr. 23 Oct. 1666.PRONI, D.207/16/14.

Estates

inherited large holdings in cos. Antrim and Down, centred on barony of Massereene, co. Antrim; leased Drapers’ Company lands, Londonderry plantation, 1 Nov. 1632.T.W. Moody, The Londonderry Plantation (Belfast, 1939), 446. Awarded 11,200 acres of plantation lands, co. Antrim, 1654.Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 201. At d. held 42,429 acres in Ireland, inc. substantial estates in cos. Antrim, Monaghan, Cavan, Louth and Tipperary, with other lands in cos. Wicklow, Clare and Westmeath.J. Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English: the Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century (Yale, 2012), 308, 371; Down Survey website.

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