Sir John Glanville the younger (1586 – 2 October 1661), was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1614 and 1644. He was Speaker of the English House of Commons during the Short Parliament. He supported the

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cause in the

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Life

Glanville was the son of Sir John Glanville the elder, of

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in Wiltshire. His father was a judge and Member of Parliament. Glanville was brought up as an attorney, but entered Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar on 6 February 1610. He was

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of Plymouth from 1614.W R Williams ''Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester''
/ref> He was elected

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for

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in 1614. In 1621 he was elected MP for Plymouth and was re-elected in 1624. He was secretary to the Lord Admiral of the Fleet during the George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham's

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in 1625, and managed several of the articles of his impeachment over the next three years. He was re-elected MP for Plymouth in 1625 and opposed the Crown in the 1620s, preparing a protest against the dissolution of Parliament in 1625. He was re-elected MP for Plymouth in 1626 and 1628, and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. At some time he was proctor for the dean and chapter of Windsor. In January 1630, Glanville became a

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of his Inn. He became

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on 20 May 1637 and bencher of his Inn on 14 June 1637. He was Recorder of

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from 1638. In April 1640 he was elected MP for

in the Short Parliament when he served Speaker. He spoke so strongly against

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during his term as Speaker that the court party contrived to prevent him coming down to the House on the day the Short Parliament was dissolved. Nevertheless, he became

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on 6 July 1640 and from then onwards he supported the

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. In November 1640, he was re-elected MP for Bristol for the

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. He was knighted on 7 August 1641. He sat in the King's Parliament at Oxford and was awarded DCL from the

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on 31 January 1644."Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Gilpin-Greenhaugh', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte" (1891)
pp. 569–599. Retrieved 8 December 2011. In January or September 1644, he was disabled from sitting in parliament. He was also replaced as recorder of Bristol by Edmund Prideaux. In 1645, he was imprisoned by Parliament in the

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until he was released on 7 July 1648. He was fined £2,320 for his support for the King. In 1659, he was elected MP for St Germans in the

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but was disqualified. Following the Restoration, Glanville was reappointed

on 6 June 1660.

Marriage and issue

Glanville married Winifred Bourchier, daughter of William Bourchier of Barnsley, Gloucestershire in about 1613. He had sons: * Francis Glanville, a

soldier in the

.Crowley ''et al.'', 1983, pages 105–109 Colonel Francis Glanville was killed in 1645 when a Parliamentarian force besieged the Royalist-held town of Bridgwater in Somerset.Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 147 His monument in the church at

is a standing alabaster statue, wearing armour and holding the metal staff of a standard; his real armour is displayed above the monument. * William Glanville, heir to his father, who was MP for

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(died 1680) * Julius Glanville

Sources

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References

* *D. Brunton and D. H. Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) *
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803
' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) * Maija Jansson (ed.), ''Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)'' (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)

External links

National Portrait GalleryGlanville's ''Journal of the Voyage to Cadiz in 1625'' (printed by the Camden Society in 1883)
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