Sir Martin Lister (1602/03, Midhope, Yorkshire – 1670, Burwell, Lincolnshire) was an English farmer and politician who sat in the

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from 1640 to 1648.

Biography

Lister was born in the family of Michael and Mary Lister in Midhope, a small village to the north-west of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Lister was a landowner of Radcliffe,

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, Thorpe Arnold,

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, and

Burwell, Lincolnshire Burwell is a small village and Civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A16 road, and north from Spilsby. The village covers approximately 2200 acres (9 km2). History Now a village, Burw ...

. In April 1640, he was elected

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in the

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for

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with sir Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman. In November 1640, together with

John Crew, 1st Baron Crew John Crew, 1st Baron Crew of Stene (1598 – 12 December 1679) was an English lawyer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. He was a Puritan and sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civi ...

M. Lister was re-elected MP for Brackley for the

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, where both of them sat until they were excluded under

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in 1648. Lister died in Burwell, small village in the

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district in Lincolnshire.

Family

Gheeraerts Susanna Temple, later Lady Lister

Lister married firstly Mary Wenman, daughter of

Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman (1573–1640), was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1625. He was created Viscount Wenman in the Peerage of Ireland in 1628. Life Wenman was the eldest son of ...

of Oxfordshire. After her death, he married secondly in 1633 Susan(na) Thornhurst (1600–1669), widow of Sir Gifford Thornhurst, 1st Baronet, daughter of Sir Alexander Temple of St. Margaret's, Rochester, Kent and sister of the regicide,

James Temple James Temple (1606–1680) was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the regicide of Charles I. Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was the second of two sons of Sir Alexander Temple, although ...

. Her trustee for the marriage settlement was her half brother

Sir Thomas Peniston Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet (1591–1644) was a 17th-century member of the gentry who received one of the first baronetcies. In 1637 he was sheriff of Oxfordshire and in 1640, he was a member of parliament for Westbury. Early life Sir Thoma ...

. By his first wife Mary Wenman, Lister had his eldest daughter Agnes Lister (Hartopp) who was born in January 1629, in small village of Thorp Arnold. By his second wife Susan Thornhurst, Lister had sons Dr.

Martin Lister Martin Lister FRS (12 April 1639 – 2 February 1712) was an English naturalist and physician. His daughters Anne and Susanna were two of his illustrators and engravers. J. D. Woodley, ‘Lister , Susanna (bap. 1670, d. 1738)’, Oxford Dic ...

(1639–1712), the physician and scientist, Richard Lister of Thorpe Arnold (1651–1704), esq, heir apparent of father, and Michael Lister of South Carlton, esq. His stepdaughter Frances Agnes Thornhurst was the mother of

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg (née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references; 5 June 1660 (Old Style) – 18 October 1744), was an English courtier who rose to be one of th ...

and of

Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell (''née'' Jennings, previously Hamilton; – 1731), also called La Belle Jennings, was a maid of honour to the Duchess of York and, like her sister Sarah, a famous beauty at the Restoration court. She ma ...

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External links

National Portrait Gallery : Portrait of Sir Martin Lister, Knight, 1626, by Robert Whight

Tate : Portrait of Susanna Thornhurst (nee Temple, later lady Lister), 1620, by Cornelius Johnson (1593 — 1661)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lister, Martin 1600s births 1670 deaths English MPs 1640 (April) English MPs 1640–1648