Warwick Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun of Okehampton (25 May 1620 – 1665) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 until he inherited his peerage and sat in the House of Lords. Mohun was the son of

John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton (1595 – 28 March 1641) was an English politician. Life He was the eldest son of Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1608, and joining the Middle ...

and his wife Cordelia Stanhope, daughter of Sir John Stanhope. John Burke ''A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland''"> John Burke ''A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland''
Note: Burke gives Warwick Mohun as 3rd Baron In April 1640, Mohun was elected Member of Parliament for Grampound in the

Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on the 20th of February 1640 and sat from 13th of April to the 5th of May 1640. It was so called because of its short life of only three weeks. Aft ...

in what appeared to be a double return. He inherited the Barony on the death of his father on 28 March 1641. On the outbreak of the English Civil War Mohun left Westminster and retired to his house in Cornwall. He eventually took up arms for the Royalist cause in September 1642 and raised a regiment of foot in his own area in spite of his unpopularity there. He resigned his commission a year later. He was fined for delinquency although the disputes about the amount to be paid lasted a long time. Mohun died between April and July 1665 at the age of 45. Mohun married Catherine Welles of Brember in Hampshire and had two sons and three daughters.

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1620 births 1665 deaths English MPs 1640 (April) Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall 2 Cavaliers {{17thC-England-MP-stub