John Gould ( fl. 1391), of

Dorchester, Dorset Dorchester ( ) is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the ...

and

Seaborough Seaborough is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is sited in the valley of the River Axe and lies approximately south of Crewkerne in Somerset. The parish was previously part of the hundred of Crew ...

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, was an English attorney and politician who sat in the

House of Commons of England The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of ...

in 1391. Gould was the son of Robert Gould of Seaborough. He became an attorney and was involved in conveyancing and other land matters. He married his wife Joan before 1401.GOULD, John, of Dorchester, Dorset and Seaborough, Som.
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(MP) for Dorchester in 1391. In December 1407, he was appointed tax collector for Somerset, but was too busy as an attorney to carry out his duties. In April 1408 he was appointed bailiff of Dorchester Rich for a year. He was a patron of the church at Seaborough and he granted a plot of his land to the church in November 1414. Gould died sometime before September 1428 when some of his lands were sold.

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Year of birth missing Year of death missing English MPs 1391 Members of the Parliament of England for Dorchester Politicians from Somerset {{14thC-England-MP-stub