POCKLINGTON, John (c.1658-1731), of the Middle Temple

Family and Education

b. c. 1658, 1st s. of Oliver Pocklington, MA, MD, rector of Brington, Hunts. 1663–81. educ. Peterborough sch.; St. John’s, Camb. adm. 27 Oct. 1674, aged 16; M. Temple 1677, called 1684, bencher 1708, reader 1709. m. lic. 15 May 1689, Mary (d. c.1745), da. of Sir Thomas Hatton, 2nd Bt.†, of Longstanton, Cambs., 2s. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1681. London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 1070; Irish Gen. ii. 144–5; Temple Ch. Bur. Reg. 35.

Offices Held

Dep.-recorder, Godmanchester 1692–3, recorder 1694–1715; recorder, Huntingdon by 1695–1701, freeman by 1702. R. Fox, Hist. Godmanchester, 167–8; Post Man, 22–24 Oct. 1695; Cambs. RO (Huntingdon), Huntingdon bor. recs. H26/19, pollbk. 1702.

Second justice, Chester 1707–11; baron of exchequer [I] 1715–d. Williams, Gt. Sess. Wales, 64; F. E. Ball, Judges in Ire. (1927), ii. 192; Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae ed. Lascelles, ii. 52.

Parlimentarian

POCKLINGTON, John (c.1658-1731), of the Middle Temple

Main residence: the Middle Temple.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

POCKLINGTON, John (c.1658-1731)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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