Sir John Dugdale (1 June 1628 – 31 August 1700) was a

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at the

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in the

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and was the son of

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(1605-1686), the historian and

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herald.

Life

He was born on 1 June 1628 at Blyth Hall,

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, Warwickshire and was educated at the grammar schools in Sutton Coldfield and Coleshill. He appears to have trained as a surveyor and worked for various royalist landowners during the Interregnum. In 1660 he joined the

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's household as senior gentleman usher. In 1662 he married Mary Baker, the daughter of a Windsor attorney. They had two children, William and Mary. Following his wife's death in 1671 he married Elizabeth Pigeon, the heiress of a Coventry apothecary, with whom he had a daughter Elizabeth. In 1675 he replaced his brother-in-law

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, although his continued service in the Hyde household meant that he was not an active herald. From the autumn of 1684 his father no longer travelled to London in the winter and a formal deputation was obtained for John to act as

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. His correspondence with his father indicates his discomfort in the role and with the factionalism within the College of Arms. He acted as Garter at the coronation of

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. He hoped to succeed his father, who died in February 1686, but the influence of his friends was only sufficient to gain him the post of

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. He was also knighted. In the 1690s he hoped to resign in favour of

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, but was refused permission and died in office in 1700.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dugdale, John English officers of arms 1628 births 1700 deaths People from Warwickshire (before 1974)