Ralph Bucknall was a
M.P.
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
for
Petersfield.
In 1697 Bucknall became Lord of the Manor of Petersfield. In 1670 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Birch of
Whitbourne, Herefordshire: they had 1 son and 3 daughters. A brewer by trade he also had a government commission for carrying on the manufacture of linen and paper in Jersey and Guernsey.
["A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade" Francis McKenzie, D.F. p109: London; OUP; 2005 ]
References
People from Petersfield
17th-century English people
English MPs 1701–1702
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