John Lamotte Honywood (1647–1694) of

Marks Hall Marks Hall was a Jacobean country house some north of Coggeshall in Essex, England. Previously a timber manor house, the 17th-century brick building was demolished in 1950. History In 1163 the manor house and estate of Markshall were granted ...

, Essex was an English

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and

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. He was born the 2nd surviving son of Sir Thomas Honywood of Marks Hall, who had been a leading Parliamentary soldier during the Civil War, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge (1665) and the

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(1668). He succeeded his brother in 1672. He was elected as Member of Parliament for

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

in 1679, sitting until 1681. He was selected

for 1679–80 and in the same year became a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber until his premature death. He also represented Essex in Parliament a second time from 1693 until his death. He died by suicide in 1694 after several unsuccessful previous attempts. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Wiseman, 1st Baronet, of Rivenhall, Essex, but left no children. His widow remarried Sir Isaac Rebow, after which Marks Hall passed to John's cousin Robert Honywood, MP of Charing, Kent.

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