Sir John Austen, 2nd Baronet (c. 16401699) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1667 and 1699. Austen was the son of

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of Hall Place, Bexley and his wife Anne Muns, daughter of Thomas Muns, of Otteridge in Bersted, Kent, and of London. He was admitted to

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on 23 Oct. 1657. He succeeded to the

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on the death of his father on 30 October 1666. He had acquired the estate of Stagenhoe, Hertfordshire though his marriage as well as inheriting Hall Place, Bexley. In 1667, he was elected

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for

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in a by-election to the

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. He was elected MP for Rye again in 1689, 1690, 1695 and 1698. He was one of the Commissioners of the Customs from 1697 to 1698.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 3'' 1900
/ref> He had two brothers, Robert Austen of Tenterden, Kent and Edward Austen of Middle Temple, London. Austen died in Red Lion Square, London at the age of about 58. Austen married by licence dated 6 December 1661, Rose Hale, daughter of Sir John Hale, of Stagenhoe and his wife Elizabeth Bale, daughter of Edmond Bale, of Saddington, Leicestershire. She died in May or November 1695, and was buried at Stagenhoe.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Austen, John 1640 births 1699 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of Gray's Inn 17th-century English landowners English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700