Sir Anthony St John (c.1585-by 1651) was an English Member of Parliament (MP) who sat in the

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in 1624 and 1625. He supported the

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side in the

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St John was a son of

Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso (c. 1540–1618) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1588 until 1596 when he inherited the peerage as Baron St John of Bletso. St John was a son of Oliver St John, 1st Baron ...

and his wife Dorothy Reid, daughter of Sir John Rede or Reid, of Oddington,

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on 9 November 1601. He was knighted on 5 August 1608 at Bletsoe together with his brother

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, also a future MP. Apart from Alexander, four other brothers, Oliver, Rowland,

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and Beauchamp were to become MPs. In 1624 St John was elected

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for

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and in 1625 MP for

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. He was returned again for Wigan in 1626 and 1628. St John was a captain in the Earl of Essex Regiment of Foot in 1642 and continued to support the parliamentary side during the Civil War. St John lived at the ancient home of the St John family at

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, Glamorgan. The house was sold in 1656 to Colonel Philip Jones. St John married on 24 April 1610 at St. Andrew Holborn, London, England Lady Katherine Herbert,London Metropolitan Archives, St Andrew Holborn, Register of marriages, 1559 - 1698, P69/AND2/A/002/MS06668, Item 001. the widow of Sir W. Herbert and a daughter of Morgan Aubrey, Salter of London, and by her had a son Oliver (who died at the age of 8) and Dorothy, who married Sir John Booth. His eldest brother Oliver inherited the

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and became Earl of Bolingbroke.

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