John Woghere ( fl. 1414–1437) of

East Grinstead East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the extreme northeast of the county, the civ ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

, was an English politician and

husbandman A husbandman in England in the Middle Ages and the early modern period was a free tenant farmer, or a small landowner. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman. The meaning of "husband" in this term is "master of house" rat ...

Family

He was the son of

Richard Woghere Richard Woghere ( fl. 1378–1407), of East Grinstead, Sussex, was an English politician. Family His son, John Woghere, was also an MP for East Grinstead. His wife's name is unrecorded, and no other children are recorded. Career Woghere was b ...

, also an MP for East Grinstead. Woghere married a woman named Margery. If there were children, they are unrecorded.

Career

He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

in November 1414, May 1421, December 1421, 1423, 1426 and 1437.

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14th-century births 15th-century deaths English MPs November 1414 People from East Grinstead English MPs May 1421 English MPs December 1421 English MPs 1423 English MPs 1426 English MPs 1437 {{15thC-England-MP-stub