Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet (died 1624) was an English landowner.
Career and family
He was the son of John Tufton and Mary Baker, a daughter of Sir John Baker. His family home was at
Hothfield in Kent.
He twice served as
Sheriff of Kent
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, was knighted in 1603, and made a baronet in 1611.
His first wife was Olympia Blower, a daughter of Christopher Blower of Sileham and Bloor's Place,
Rainham. Their children included:
* Anne Tufton, who married
Francis Tresham
Francis Tresham ( 1567 – 23 December 1605) was a member of the group of English provincial Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King James I of England.
Tresham joined the Earl of Essex's fail ...
, the
gunpowder plot
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conspirator, in 1593
* Elizabeth Tufton
* Margaret Tufton, who married Thomas Caril of
Shipley, Sussex
Tufton married, secondly, Christian Browne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne. His children with Christian Browne included:
*
Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet (1578–1631), later
Earl of Thanet
Earl of the Isle of Thanet, in practice shortened to Earl of Thanet, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet, Nicholas Tufton, 1st Baron Tufton. He had already succeeded as second Baron ...
, who married Frances Cecil
*
Humfrey Tufton (1584-1659) of the Mote, Maidstone, who married Margaret Morley
* Richard Tufton (died 1631), of Tothill Street, Westminster, who married Chrysogon Morley, a sister of Margaret Morley
*
William Tufton (died 1631 or in 1650), of Vinters, Boxley, and
Governor of Barbados, who married Anne Cave (died 1649)
*
Cecily Tufton (died 1653), who married (1)
Sir Edward Hungerford, and (2),
Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland
Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, KG KB (1578–1632) was an English nobleman. Despite a brief imprisonment for his involvement in the Essex Rebellion of 1601, he became prominent at the court of James I. He lived at Belvoir Castle in Le ...
(died 1632). Her family at
Belvoir Castle
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was thought to have been troubled by
witchcraft
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.
* Anne Tufton, (died 1606).
He died in 1624. He and his first wife, Olympia, were buried at Hothfield, and reburied in the Tufton aisle at Rainham.
[A. J. Pearman, 'Rainham Church']
''Archaeologia Cantiana'', 17 (1887), pp. 51-2
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References
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Year of birth unknown
1624 deaths
Knights Bachelor
17th-century English knights