John Warden (died 1628), of Widemarsh Street,

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

, was an English politician and

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 ...

Life

In he inherited his father's estate, and took on the obligation to pay an annuity of £10 to his mother in lieu of a

jointure Jointure is, in law, a provision for a wife after the death of her husband. As defined by Sir Edward Coke, it is "a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands or tenements, to take effect presently in possession or profit after the dea ...

. by he claimed to have a net worth of £3,000. He was

Mayor of Hereford The office of Mayor of Hereford, a city in the west midlands of England, is now a primarily ceremonial, non-political post. As the city's First Citizen, the mayor serves as the civic representative at a wide range of functions and events throughou ...

between 1604 and 1605. He was returned (elected) as MP for

at a by-election in 1610 during the final session of the first Jacobean Parliament, and re-elected in 1614. On neither occasion did he participate as either as a committeeman or debater. He was named as an alderman in the 1619, and as an ex-officio magistrate in 1620. He served as a commissioner for the Forced Loan in 1626–27 as part of his civic office. He died shortly before June 1628. His widow survived him for by 20 years.

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16th-century births 1628 deaths Mayors of Hereford English MPs 1604–1611 English MPs 1614 {{17thC-England-MP-stub