Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (died August 1701) was a Welsh politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1659 and 1690. Hanmer was the son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet of Hanmer and his first wife Elizabeth Baker. In 1659, he was elected

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for Flint in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was knighted on 9 August 1660 and was

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from 1664 to 1665. In October 1669, he was elected MP for

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for the

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. He succeeded to the

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on the death of his father in 1678. In 1681 he was elected MP for Flintshire. He was elected MP for Flint again in 1685. He became a colonel of the 11th Foot in 1688. In 1689 he was elected MP for Flint again. He became a major-general in the Army and was colonel of the 11th Foot, serving King William III at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.George E. Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Vol. 1'' (1900)
/ref> Hanmer married Mary Alston, daughter of Joseph Alston, of Netherhall, Suffolk. He died in 1701, probably killed in a duelDodd, Arthur Herbert
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Dictionary of Welsh Biography, online edition. Retrieved 22 December 2015. and left no issue; he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew Thomas, the son of his younger brother William who had already predeceased their father, the 2nd Baronet. unbury was Thos. Hanmer's brother-in-law./ref>

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