Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet (13 August 1621 – 1680) of

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, near Droitwich, Worcestershire was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1640 and 1679. He supported the

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cause in the

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Biography

He was the son of

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and his wife Frances Ferrers, the daughter of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth. His father and grandfather died when he was very young and he became the ward of Thomas Coventry, later Lord Coventry. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1624 and his grandfather to his Westwood estate in 1625. In April 1640, Pakington was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He was elected MP for

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for the

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in November 1640. He was disabled from sitting on 20 August 1642 for executing a commission of array for

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. He served the King during the

but was captured and imprisoned in the

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. He appeared at the muster before the

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, and was in consequence tried for treason, but no one would testify against him, probably because he had been captured by the Scots. He was nevertheless fined again. After the Restoration Pakington was again a Justice of the Peace. In 1661, he was re-elected MP for Worcestershire in the

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and sat until 1679. He was instrumental in opposing an alleged plot by

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and other Presbyterians, though they claimed (apparently successfully) that the plot was fabricated. Pakington died at the age of 58.

Family

Pakington married Dorothy Coventry, daughter of his guardian Lord Coventry, with whom he had one son and two daughters. He was succeeded by his son Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet

References

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