Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet (c. 1591 – 12 March 1647) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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in two parliaments between 1621 and 1647. He supported the

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cause in the

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. Boynton was the eldest son of Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, who was

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in 1596, and his wife Dorothy Place, daughter of Sir Christopher Place, of Halnaby, Yorkshire. He was baptised at Barmston on 26 January 1591.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 1''
/ref> He was educated at

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, before being admitted at

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. He succeeded his father on 9 April 1617. He was knighted, at

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on 9 May 1618 and six days afterwards was created a

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on 15 May 1618. In 1621 he was elected

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for

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. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1628. On the outbreak of the Civil War, Boynton sided with the parliamentary side and aided in the capture of Sir John Hotham, who was planning to surrender Hull to the King. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire again from 1643 to 1644. He was Governor of

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and Colonel of a troop of horse. In 1645 he was elected MP for

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as a recruiter to the

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. Boynton died at Bainton in the

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, and was buried on 12 March 1647, in the chancel of St. Andrew's, Holborn. Boynton was married twice. His first marriage was to Frances Griffith, daughter of Sir Henry Griffith of

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, by whom he had at least five children: * Sir Francis Boynton (died 1695), who succeeded him in the baronetcy * Colonel Matthew Boynton who was killed in the

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, 1651 * Dorothy, who married

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of Etton * Elizabeth, who married John Heron * Margaret, who married John Robinson of Ryther She died in July 1634 and he married secondly to Katherine Stapleton, widow of Robert Stapleton, of

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, Yorkshire and daughter of The Viscount Fairfax of Emley. She subsequently remarried to Sir Arthur Ingram, who died 4 July 1655 and then William Wiokham.

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