Sir John Tufton (died 1624) was an English landowner.

Career and family

He was the son of John Tufton and Mary Baker, a daughter of Sir John Baker. His family home was at

Hothfield Hothfield is a village and civil parish in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England and is 3 miles north-west of Ashford on the A20. It is completely split in two by Hothfield Common. Geography In the north west is Hothfield Common, 58 hectares (1 ...

in Kent. He twice served as

Sheriff of Kent The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrum ...

, was knighted in 1603, and made a baronet in 1611. His first wife was Olympia Blower, a daughter of Christopher Blower of Sileham and Bloor's Place, Rainham. Their children included: * Anne Tufton, who married

Francis Tresham Francis Tresham ( 1567 – 23 December 1605), eldest son of Thomas Tresham and Muriel Throckmorton, was a member of the group of English provincial Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King Jam ...

, the

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conspirator, in 1593 * Elizabeth Tufton * Margaret Tufton, who married Thomas Caril of Shipley, Sussex Tufton married, secondly, Christian Browne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne. His children with Christian Browne included: *

Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet (1578–1631) was an English peer. Nicholas Tufton was the son of Sir John Tufton, and Christian Browne, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne, Justice of the Common Pleas, by Agnes Hussey, the daughter of Joh ...

(1578–1631), later

Earl of Thanet Earl of the Isle of Thanet, in practice shortened to Earl of Thanet, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Nicholas Tufton, 1st Baron Tufton. He had already succeeded as second Baronet of Hothfield in 1631 and been cre ...

, who married Frances Cecil *

Humfrey Tufton Humfrey Tufton, 1st Baronet (1584 – October 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648. Tufton was a son of John Tufton of Hothfield, and brother of Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet. He purchased Th ...

(1584-1659) of the Mote, Maidstone, who married Margaret Morley * Richard Tufton (died 1631), of Tothill Street, Westminster, who married Chrysogon Morley, a sister of Margaret Morley *

William Tufton Sir William Tufton, 1st Baronet (1589 – May 1631) was the British governor of Barbados between 21 December 1629 and 16 July 1630. Career William Tufton was born in 1589, in Mote, Hothfield, Kent. He was the fifth son of Sir John Tufton Sir J ...

(died 1631 or in 1650), of Vinters, Boxley, and

Governor of Barbados This article contains a list of viceroys in Barbados from its initial colonisation in 1627 by England until it achieved independence in 1966. From 1833 to 1885, Barbados was part of the colony of the Windward Islands, and the governor of Barbad ...

, who married Anne Cave (died 1649) * Cecily Tufton (died 1653), who married (1) Sir Edward Hungerford, and (2),

Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, KG (1578–1632) was an English nobleman. Despite a brief imprisonment for his involvement in the Essex Rebellion of 1601, he became prominent at the court of James I. He lived at Belvoir Castle in Leices ...

(died 1632). Her family at

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was thought to have been troubled by

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. He died in 1624. He and his first wife, Olympia, were buried at Hothfield, and reburied in the Tufton aisle at Rainham.A. J. Pearman, 'Rainham Church'
''Archaeologia Cantiana'', 17 (1887), pp. 51-2
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References

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