John Ireton (1615–1689) was Lord Mayor of London in 1658 and brother of General

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Biography

John Ireton was knighted by

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, and purchased the estate of Radcliffe-on-Soar, in Nottinghamshire from Colonel Hutchinson. In 1652 he was appointed a

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and in 1658 elected

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. In 1660 at the

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, he was excluded from the Act of Indemnity, and for a time imprisoned in the

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. An allusion to which circumstance is made by

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in his "Diary," under the date 1 December 1661. According to a letter in the State Papers, in 1662 he was removed to the

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; but if this were so, he was shortly after liberated, for in a list of thirteen "fanatics" at East Sheen, in 1664, where "conventicles were innumerable," is the name of "John Ireton, Formerly Lord Mayor." in 1685 he was again imprisoned for seditious practices, cites: Noble, i, 445; Cat. State Papers, Dom. 1661-2, p. 460 and, dying in 1689, was buried in London at the church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less.

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