John Bush (High Sheriff)
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John Bush (c. 1745 – date of death unknown) was an English landowner and officer of militia who served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1773.
Early life
Born about 1745, a son of Jonathan Bush of Burcot, Bush was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School).[1] On 14 December 1762 he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, aged seventeen. His only graduation recorded in Alumni Oxonienses is as a Doctor of Civil Law on 8 July 1773.[2]
Career
Bush is noted as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in July 1773.[3] He was a Steward of the Club of Old Abingdonians in 1774[4] and in the Enclosure Award of 1776 was one of the two principal landowners in the parish of Burcot.[1] He held the rank of captain in the Oxfordshire Militia list of 1779.
Personal life
On 10 March 1770, at Albury, Oxfordshire, Bush married Susanna Wingrove of that parish.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b Richardson, William H (1905). List of Some Distinguished Persons Educated at Abingdon School 1563-1855. Hughes Market Place (Abingdon). p. 6.
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ University of Oxford (1801). A Catalogue of all Graduates in Divinity, Law and Medicine. Clarendon Press. p. 74.
- ^ "Stewards of the OA Club". Abingdon School.
- ^ Register of Marriages in the Parish of Albury, No. 15, John Bush Esq. of the Parish of Dorchester, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 17 September 2021 (subscription required)