John Fettiplace (politician died 1658)

John Fettiplace (1583–1658) was an

Fettiplace was the son of Sir Edmund

's Latin 'Manuduction to Theology' dedicated to her.

Fettiplace was baptised at Childrey on 23 May 1583. In 1626, Fettiplace was elected

Member of Parliament for Berkshire. He was re-elected in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.^[1] He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1630.^[2]

In April 1640, Fettiplace was re-elected MP for Berkshire for the Short Parliament, and was elected again for the Long Parliament in November 1640.^[1] He supported the King during the Civil War.^[3] He joined the King's parliament at Oxford and was disabled from sitting in parliament on 22 January 1644. He was later fined £1,943 for his delinquency.^[2] His nephew, also called John Fettiplace, was a colonel in the army of Prince Rupert and was made a baronet by Charles II after the Restoration.

He died unmarried on 21 March 1658 and is commemorated by one of the famous triple-decker effigial monuments in Swinbrook Church. His estate passed to his nephew, Sir John Fettiplace, 1st Baronet

References

Parliament of England
Preceded by Edmund Dunch Sir Francis Knollys	Edmund Dunch 1626 Sir Richard Harrison 1628–1629	Parliament suspended until 1640
Vacant Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Berkshire 1640–1644 With: Henry Marten 1640–1643	Succeeded by Sir Francis Pile, 2nd Baronet

[Willis-1] 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.

[RBH-2] Royal Berkshire History The Fettiplace Family

[Bint-3] Bint family of Lambourn

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