HARRISON, John (c.1589-1669), of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, London; later of Balls Park, Herts. and Beaumont, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c. 1589, 12th s. of William Harrison of Aldcliffe, Beaumont, Lancs. and Margaret, da. of Christopher Gardiner of Urswick, Lancs.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv), 354. educ. Warton g.s.; ?Queen’s, Oxf. 1603. PROB 11/338, f. 121; Al. Ox. m. (1) 6 Sept. 1616, Margaret (bur. 6 Aug. 1640), da. of Robert Fanshawe of Dronfield, Derbys., 3s. (d.v.p.), 2da.; Fanshawe Memoirs ed. H.C. Fanshawe, 19-20; H.C. Fanshawe, Hist. Fanshawe Fam. 39-43; St. Olave, Hart Street (Harl. Soc. reg. xlvi), 173. (2) c.Jan. 1646, Mary (d. 14 Feb. 1706), da. of Philip Shotbolt alias Battalion of Ardeley, Herts., 1s. 1da.Fanshawe, 43, 142. Kntd. 4 Jan. 1641. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. d. 28 Sept. 1669. Fanshawe Memoirs, 21.

Offices Held

Member, Virg. Co. 1622. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 599.

Clerk to Sir John Wolstenholme* c.1611–38; Fanshawe Memoirs, 21. collector, pretermitted customs, outports 1620–4; E351/779–83. farmer, sugar duties 1626 – ?32, petty farm 1632 – 38, 1641, great farm 1640–1; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 573; R. Ashton, Crown and the Money Market, 104–5, 108, 110–12. commr. customs 1660 – 62, farmer 1662–d. CTB, i. 226; iii. 1127.

J.p. Herts. 1638 – 42, 1660–d.; C231/5, pp. 292, 530. commr. levying money (parl.) 1643, loyal and indigent officers, London and Westminster 1662, assessment, Herts. and Lancs. 1664–d. A. and O. i. 231; SR, v. 382, 532, 582, 619.

Gent. privy chamber 1664–d. Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 174.

Parlimentarian

HARRISON, John (c.1589-1669), of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, London; later of Balls Park, Herts. and Beaumont, Lancs.

Main residences: St. Olave's, Hart Street, London; Balls Park, Herts.; Beaumont, Lancs.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

HARRISON, John (c.1589-1669)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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