John Alford (Parliamentarian)
John Alford (c. 1590 – 5 January 1649) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
Early life
Alford was the son of
Political career
In 1626 Alford was elected
In April 1640, Alford was re-elected MP for New Shoreham in the Short Parliament and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and held the seat until 1648 when he was excluded in Pride's Purge.[3]
Death
Alford died in 1649 and was buried at Broadwater, West Sussex where a monument in the South Transept Chapel was erected to his memory.[1]
"Here lyeth the body of the truly honourable and religious John Alford of Offington, Esquire, who having finished his career, exchanged mortality for glory, Jan. 5, 1648. AEt. 59. "He left issue ye noble Lady Jane Eversfield, and the virtuous gentele woman Mrs. Elizabeth Alford."
Alford married Frances Bishopp, daughter of Sir Thomas Bishopp, 1st Baronet, of Parham, Sussex, M.P., and had two daughters Elizabeth, born 1620, who married Mr. Bickerstaff, and was Jane, who married Sir Thomas Eversfield. His widow outlived him for eleven years.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Alford Association
- ^ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Abannan-Appletre', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 1–28. Date accessed: 10 December 2011
- ^ a b Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.