John Feilder was an English politician who sat as a royal independent during the

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, where he has been described as "one of the most conservative influences". After attending

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he joined the army, becoming a colonel and captain of foot, and captain of a troop of horse during the

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, when he was initially commander of

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and thereafter commanded the forces of Surrey.http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33434&strquery=feilder#s8 Journal of the House of Lords: volume 7: 1644 (1767–1830), pp. 669–671 In 1649 he briefly served as Governor of Portsmouth . He entered politics after marrying the sister of Sir John Trevor, a fellow Cornish MP. He was

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for 1642 and then returned as Member of Parliament for

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for 1647–1653 and again in 1659. The family lived at Horkesley Hall, in Essex, and Heyshott Manor, in West Sussex.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Feilder, John Politicians from Cornwall High Sheriffs of Hampshire Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall Alumni of the University of Oxford Year of birth missing People from St Ives, Cornwall People from the Borough of Colchester Year of death missing English MPs 1648–1653 17th-century English politicians