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John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace (February 1616 – 25 November 1670) was a British peer and Royal servant.

Life

John was born in Hurley, Berkshire the son of

Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace (1564 – 22 April 1634) of Hurley, Berkshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Lovelace in 1627. Lov ...

and his wife, Margaret, the daughter of London merchant William Dodworth, and educated at

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. He lived at Ladye Place at Hurley which he inherited on the death of his father. Like his son the third Baron, he was a notoriously heavy drinker, and chronically in debt. He was an ardent Royalist and was committed by the Parliamentarians to the

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and made to pay a heavy fine of 18,373''l''. 1''s''. 10''d''. After the restoration of the Monarchy, he was appointed

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from 28 August 1660 to 25 November 1670. In 1670 he was made steward of the old Royal palace at Woodstock and died in the palace gatehouse on 25 September 1670. He was buried on 1 October 1670 in the old priory church in Hurley. After his death, he was succeeded by his son

John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace (1641 – 27 September 1693) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1661 to 1670 when he inherited the title Baron Lovelace. He was notorious for his drunken ...

, who according to uncharitable acquaintances inherited both his father's debts and his weakness for drink. His wife

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, daughter of

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (159125 March 1667), was an English landowner and Royalist general during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, described by one historian as a "much under-rated field commander". A distant relative of Thomas We ...

and Anne Crofts, succeeded her niece as 7th

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, which after her death passed to their granddaughter Martha Johnson. His daughter Dorothy Lovelace married Henry Drax (1641–1682), a plantation owner in Barbados.

References

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