Family and Education
b. 20 May 1708, 1st s. of Sir Henry Goodricke, 4th Bt., by Mary, da. of Tobias Jenkyns of Grimston, Yorks., and gd.-da. of Charles, 1st Duke of Bolton. educ. Trinity, Camb. 1725. m. 28 Sept. 1731, Mary Benson (formerly Johnson), illegit. da. of Robert Benson, 1st and last Baron of Bingley (of the 1st creation), 1s. 2da. suc. fa. 21 July 1738; and in 1773 to Bramham Park estate of George Fox Lane 1st Baron Bingley (of the 2nd creation), who had m. a legit. da. of Robert, Lord Bingley.
Offices Held
Resident at the court of Brussels 1750, but did not go there. Appointed minister to Sweden 1758, he remained at Copenhagen till admitted to Sweden in Apr. 1764, and was there as envoy 1764–73.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Ribston, nr. Knaresborough; and Bramham Park, Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Web Title
GOODRICKE, Sir John, 5th Bt. (1708-89)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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