Family and Education
b. 1508, 1st s. of John, 1st Baron Mordaunt of Turvey by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Henry Vere of Great Addington, Northants.; bro. of Edmund. m. (1) settlement 26 Feb. 1526, Ella (d. 2 June 1543), da. and h. of John Fitzlewis ?4s. inc. Lewis 6da.; (2) lic. 3 Dec. 1545, Joan, da. of Richard Fermor of Easton Neston, Northants., wid. of Robert Wilford (d. Sept. or Oct. 1545) of London. KB ?30 May 1533; suc. fa. as 2nd Baron 18 Aug. 1562.Date of birth given in CP, ix. 195. R. Halstead (pseud. of Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough), Succinct Gen. Mordaunt, 325-6, 400, 599; PCC 13 Jankyn; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 42; LP Hen. VIII, vi; Marr. Lic. Fac. Off. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 5.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Essex and Herts. 1540 – 41; bailiff, duchy of Cornw., Newport Pound, Essex c. 1543; j.p. Essex 1544–47 or later, q. by 1554–64; commr. relief, Essex 1550, musters, Essex, ?Herts. c. 1557, 1558, 1563, 1565, heresy 1557; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Olney, Bucks. 1552 – 58, Hertford and constable, Hertford castle 1554 – ?58; PC 1553–?58.
Main residences: West Horndon, Essex; Turvey, Beds.
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Commons 1509-1558
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MORDAUNT, Sir John (1508-71)
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Oxford 1644
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