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 Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. 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

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. 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

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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

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, 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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