John Lister (died 19 January 1616) was an English lead merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601 Lister was a lead merchant of Hull and in about 1590 he purchased a plot of land on the High Street overlooking the

River Hull The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops of ...

. He was a member of Hull Corporation and became an alderman and was mayor of Hull in 1592.Hull City Council - Hull Museums Collection - The Lister family
/ref> Lister was elected

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for Kingston upon Hull (Hull) in 1601.Browne Willis ''Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences'' 1750 p 146
/ref> Lister died in 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Hull.Thomas Gent ''History of Hull''
/ref> Lister married Anne Gayton, daughter of Robert Gayton. Their son John was also MP for Hull. The house of the Lister family is now a museum known as the

Wilberforce House Wilberforce House is a British historic house museum, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull. It is the birthplace of social reformer William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who used his time as a member of Parliament to work for the ab ...

Museum.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lister, John Date of birth unknown 1616 deaths English MPs 1601 English merchants Mayors of Kingston upon Hull 16th-century English businesspeople 17th-century English businesspeople 16th-century merchants 17th-century merchants