Sir John Cordell, 2nd Baronet (1646–1690) of

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, Sudbury, Suffolk, was an English

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politician who sat in the

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between 1685 and 1690. Cordell was the eldest son of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Bury St. Edmunds Grammar School in 1656 and travelled abroad from 1663 to 1666. By 1674, he married Elizabeth Waldegrave, daughter of Thomas Waldegrave of Smallbridge, Suffolk. In 1685 he served a one-year term as

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. Cordell was returned as a Member of Parliament for

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in 1685 and for

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in 1689. Cordell was buried on 9 September 1690 at Long Melford leaving a son and two daughters. The baronetcy passed to his eldest son

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, who was returned for Sudbury in 1701 but who died by a fall from his horse in 1704. The estates then passed to his two sisters, of whom Margaret married

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