Sir John Hayward (c. 1591 – April 1636) was an English politician and landowner. He was MP for Bridgnorth in 1621 and for Saltash in 1626, as well as

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in 1623 and of

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in 1632.

Personal details

John Hayward was born in 1591, second surviving son of Sir

Rowland Hayward Sir Rowland Hayward (c. 15205 December 1593) was a London merchant, and Lord Mayor of the City in both 1570 and 1591. Through his commercial activities he acquired considerable wealth, and was able to loan money to Queen Elizabeth I and pu ...

(1520-1593) and his second wife Catherine Smythe. Originally from an old Shropshire family, his father was a wealthy merchant and twice Lord Mayor of London. In 1615, Hayward inherited his elder brother George's estates in

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; around 1624, he moved to Hollingbourne in Kent and married his recently widowed cousin Anne, mother of Sir

Michael Livesey Sir Michael Livesey, 1st Baronet (1614 - circa 1665), also spelt Livesay, was a Puritan activist and Member of Parliament who served in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He was one of the regicides who approved the ...

, a regicide who approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649. They had no children and when he died in 1636, he was buried next to his father in

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. His will records him as being resident in

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* * * 1590s births 1636 deaths English MPs 1621–1622 Politicians from Shropshire People from Rochester, Kent English MPs 1626 Members of the Parliament of England for Saltash Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge High sheriffs of Kent High sheriffs of Montgomeryshire People from Hollingbourne {{17thC-England-MP-stub