GERMAIN, Sir John, 1st Bt. (1650-1718), of Drayton, Northants.

b. c. May 1650, s. of John Germain by Mary Moll. m. (1) lic. 15 Sept. 1701, Mary (d. 1705), suo jure Baroness Mordaunt, da. and coh. of Henry, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, div. w. of Henry, 7th Duke of Norfolk, s.p.; (2) 15 Sept. 1706 (with £6,000), Lady Elizabeth (d. 1769), da. of Charles Berkeley†, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, 2s. d.v.p. 1da. d.v.p. 1 da. illegit. Kntd. 26 Feb. 1698; cr. Bt. 25 Mar. 1698. DNB; Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization 1603–1700 (Huguenot Soc. xviii), 222; Bridges, Northants. ii. 248; Top. and Gen. iii. 263; Lambeth Palace Lib. ms 3129, f. 9; SRO, David Fearn mss GD1/576/8, Joseph Blake to Andrew Hutchinson, 1 May 1718 (ex inf. Mrs J. Turnbull).