Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet (20 April 1617 – November 1670) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons from 1661 to 1670. He supported the
Royalist
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cause in the
English Civil War
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.
Life
Goodricke was the son of Sir Henry Goodricke of
Ribston Hall
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The two-storey mansion presents an impress ...
, Yorkshire and his wife Jane Savile, daughter of Sir John Savile, of Methley, (1545–1607), Baron of the Exchequer. Though he is said to have been born in 1617 he was baptised at St Mary's York on 31 August 1620.
[George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 2'']
/ref> He matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge
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in 1633. After then studying at Aberdeen, he then travelled in France in the later 1630s.baronet
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on 14 August 1641. During the Civil Wars he supported the king and suffered in the Royal cause. He was imprisoned at Manchester and later in the Tower of London
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and was fined £1,508, (or £1,200, with £40 a year) on 23 November 1646.[
In 1661, Goodricke was elected ]Member of Parliament
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for Yorkshire
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in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1670.[
Goodricke married firstly Katharine Norcliffe, daughter of Stephen Norcliffe, of York, at Trinity, Micklegate, York, on 7 October 1641. He married secondly before 1665, Elizabeth Dow, Viscountess Fairfax of Elmley, daughter of Alexander Smith, of Stutton, Suffolk.][
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References
External links
Goodricke family tree
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1617 births
1670 deaths
English MPs 1661–1679
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
English landowners