James Rivers (16038 June 1641) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1640.
Rivers was the son of
Sir John Rivers, 1st Baronet of Chafford, Westerham, Kent and his wife Dorothy Potter, daughter of Thomas Potter of Wellstreet, Westerham, Kent. He matriculated at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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under entry dated 16 December 1616, aged 13 and was awarded BA on 3 July 1620.
[ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Riader-Roissie', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 1250-1277. Date accessed: 5 May 2012]
/ref> He was a leading puritan.[ History of Parliament Online – Rivers, Nizel]
/ref> In April 1640, he was elected member of parliament
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for Lewes
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for the Short Parliament
The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on the 20th of February 1640 and sat from 13th of April to the 5th of May 1640. It was so called because of its short life of only three weeks.
Aft ...
. He was re-elected MP for Lewes for the Long Parliament
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In Septem ...
in November 1640.[
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1603 births
1641 deaths
English MPs 1640 (April)
English MPs 1640–1648