Joseph Maynard (1639 – 25 October 1689) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1665 to 1679.

Origins

Maynard was the son of Sir John Maynard, MP, by his first wife Elizabeth Henley daughter of Andrew Henley of Taunton, Somerset and was baptised on 15 December 1639.

Career

He was a student of

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in 1663 but was never

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as he came "much short of his father's intellectual parts". In 1665, he was elected

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for

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in the

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although through the tardiness of the

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he did not take his seat until nearly a year later. He was commissioner for

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s for Devon in 1675 and commissioner for assessment for Buckinghamshire from 1679 to 1680. He did not stand for parliament again as his father preferred to nominate more eminent representatives for the family borough.History of Parliament Online - Joseph Maynard
/ref> Maynard lived at Clifton Reynes, Buckinghamshire.

Marriages and children

Maynard married twice: *Firstly on 25 May 1663 to Mary Mosley, daughter of

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of Rolleston, Staffordshire. By Mary he had three daughters, two of whom survived and thus became great heiresses: **Mary Maynard, who married 2 March 1691, as his second wife,

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. She died without issue, 9 November 1722. **Elizabeth Maynard, who married 9 July 1684

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(died 1698) and was the mother of Henrietta Hobart, the celebrated Mrs. Howard, afterwards Countess of Suffolk, and of

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, her only son, created 5 Sept 1746, Earl of Buckinghamshire. *Secondly by licence dated 5 June 1680, to Elizabeth Strode, a daughter of Sir

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(1614–1676), MP, of Newnham, Devon. Without children.HoP biog "s.p."

Death and burial

He died in his father's lifetime at the age of about 50 and was buried at Ealing.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maynard, Joseph 1639 births 1689 deaths English MPs 1661–1679 Members of the Parliament of England for Bere Alston