Martin Lister (MP)

Sir Martin Lister (1602-1670) was an English farmer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.

Lister was a landowner of Radcliffe, Buckinghamshire, Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire, and Burwell, Lincolnshire.

In April 1640, Lister was elected Member of Parliament for Brackley in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Brackley in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648.^[1]

Lister died at the age of 68.

Portrait of Susanna Temple, second wife of Sir Martin Lister by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

Lister married firstly Mary Wenman, daughter of Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman of Oxfordshire. She died about 1635.^[2] In 1633, he married secondly Susanna Thornhurst, widow of Sir Gifford Thornhurst, 1st Baronet, daughter of Sir Alexander Temple of St. Margaret's, Rochester, Kent and sister of the regiciide, James Temple. Her trustee for the marriage settlement was her half brother Sir Thomas Peniston. Lister's son by his second wife Susanna was the physician and scientist Martin Lister. His stepdaughter Frances Thornhurst was the mother of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.

References

1. ^ Browne Willis, Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp229-239
2. ^ The history and antiquities of the town, hundred, and deanry of Buckingham ... By Browne Willis

External links

• National Portrait Gallery - Sir Martin Lister

Parliament of England
Preceded by Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Brackley 1640-1648 With: Sir Thomas Wenman 1640 John Crew 1640-1648	Succeeded by Not represented in the Rump Parliament

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Date of birth	1602
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Date of death	1670
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