Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet (1603–1693) was an English grocer, financier and

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. He was the 2nd son of Edward Cutler, Salter, of London. He became a successful grocer who also participated in land speculation, acquiring the combined Gawthorpe and Harewood Castle estates in Yorkshire in 1656. He was knighted in 1660 and created a baronet (of London) later the same year. He was Master of the

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of the City of London four times and became a councilman and alderman of the city of London. He paid for much of the rebuilding of

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after the

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of 1666. He was elected a

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in 1664. He served as

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in 1676. He was Member of Parliament for

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1679–80 and for

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1689–93. He was Treasurer for the building of

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. Late in life he bought

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estate in Cambridgeshire from

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. He died in 1693 and was buried at

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. He had married twice; firstly in 1642, Elizabeth, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Foote, 1st Baronet,

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and secondly in 1669, Elicia, the daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire. The Baronetcy became extinct on his death and his estate passed to his only surviving daughter Elizabeth who married

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. On Elizabeth's death with no children the estate reverted to her cousins the Boulter family, in particular

Edmund Boulter Edmund Boulter (abt 1635 – 1709), was a London merchant and politician. He was the eldest son of John Boulter, a maltster, twice mayor of Abingdon and his wife born Susannah Cutler, sister of Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet, later Edmund's business ...

References

* ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland'' (1838) John Burke.p147 Google Books * ''The Diary of Samuel Pepys'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cutler, John 1607 births 1693 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Fellows of the Royal Society High Sheriffs of Kent English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 1660 establishments in England