Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet (1599 – December 1683) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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in 1625 and 1626. Monson was born in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, the son of Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet of South Carlton, Lincolnshire and his wife Margaret Anderson, the daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson. He studied law. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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. He was elected MP for

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in 1626. He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles I on 2 February 1627.George E. Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Vol. 1'' (1900)
/ref> In May 1641 he succeeded to the

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on the death of his father. When the

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broke out, he retired to Oxford where was awarded D.C.L. from the

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on 1 November 1642. In 1645, acquired the estate of

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through his wife's inheritance and subsequently resided there. He was concerned in the surrender of the Royalist garrison at Oxford to the Parliamentary army in 1646. Monson died at the age of 84 and was buried at South Carlton on 29 December 1683. His widow was buried there on 10 December 1692. Monson married in about 1625 Ursula Oxenbridge, daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of

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, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Sir Henry Coke of Broxbourne.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Monson, John 1599 births 1683 deaths English MPs 1625 English MPs 1626 Knights of the Bath Baronets in the Baronetage of England