John Evelyn (3 October 1677 – 13 November 1702) was an English politician. A member of a prominent

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family, his career in Parliament was cut short after a few months by his premature death from

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. John was the eldest son of George Evelyn, of

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, and of his second wife Margaret Webb. He succeeded his father in the Godstone estate in 1699. On 5 May 1701, he obtained a marriage license with Ann Glynne, the daughter of John Glynne and granddaughter of the judge John Glynne, but the marriage does not appear ever to have been carried out. At the 1702 election he was returned unopposed at

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, where his father and grandfather had previously sat. On his journey to take his seat, he visited his second cousin once removed, the diarist

John Evelyn John Evelyn (31 October 162027 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. John Evelyn's diary, or memo ...

, at

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; the latter referred to him as "a young and very hopeful gentleman". Soon after the opening of Parliament, Evelyn contracted smallpox, and died on 13 November. His entailed estates passed to his brother

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. John is believed to have been a Whig, but his short tenure in Parliament precludes a positive identification.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Evelyn, John 1677 births 1702 deaths Deaths from smallpox English MPs 1702–1705