Paulet St John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke (23 November 1634 – 5 October 1711), known as Paulet St John until 1688, was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1663 to 1685. He inherited the peerage as

Earl of Bolingbroke The title Earl of Bolingbroke has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. Initial creation The creation in the Peerage of England occurred on 28 December 1624, when Oliver St John, 4th Baron St John of ...

in 1688.

Biography

St John was the younger son of Sir Paulet St John, younger son of Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke. His mother was Elizabeth Vaughan.History of Parliament Online -St John, Paulet
/ref> In 1663, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in a by-election to the

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. He was re-elected MP for Bedford in the two elections of 1679 and in 1681. In 1688 he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and entered the

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. The following year he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Bedfordshire, which he remained until his death. He was also a Recorder of

. Lord Bolingbroke died unmarried in October 1711, aged 76. The earldom became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the barony of St John of Bletso by his kinsman Sir Paulet St Andrew St John, 5th Baronet.

References

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