Family and Education
b. c.1671. m. 30 May 1699, aged 28, Elizabeth (d. 1763), da. of Matthew Aylmer*, 1st Lord Aylmer [I], wid. of Capt. Chester Moore, RN (d.s.p. 1696), 9s. (6 d.v.p) 4da. (1 d.v.p.). Kntd. 25 Nov. 1705. St. Paul’s Covent Garden (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxxiii), 112, 115, 120, 126, 131, 144, 155, 160, 171, 176, 186; PCC 193 Lisle.
Offices Held
Ent. RN 1680, midshipman by 1687, lt. 1689, capt. 1690, r.-adm. 1707, v.-adm. 1708, adm. 1709, c.-in-c. Mediterranean 1710–11, Baltic squadron 1715–27, adm. of the fleet and c.-in-c. 1734–44; envoy, Russia July– Aug. 1717, Denmark May– Aug. 1727; ld. of Admiralty 1718–30; plenip. Sweden May– Oct. 1720, Portugal 1735–7.
Freeman, Portsmouth 1710.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Benenden, Kent; St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London.
Notes
Unless otherwise stated, this biography is based on the DNB entry, and on D. D. Aldridge, ‘Admiral Sir John Norris’, Mariner’s Mirror, li. 173-83.
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Commons 1690-1715
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NORRIS, Sir John (c.1671-1749)
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