John Jennings (Member of the Long Parliament)
- John Jennings (Member of the Long Parliament)
Sir John Jennings, KB (died August 1642), of Sandridge in Hertfordshire, was an English Member of Parliament. Succeeding his father as head of the family in 1609, he was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1626, and represented St Albans in Parliament from 1628 until his death in 1642. In the Long Parliament he was a sympathiser of the Parliamentary cause, but died before the outbreak of the Civil War.
His son, Richard, succeeded him as MP for St Albans. Richard's daughter, Sarah, married the 1st Duke of Marlborough and was famous as the confidant of Queen Anne.
References
*D Brunton & D H Pennington, "Members of the Long Parliament" (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
*"Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803" (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
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