Sir Francis Boynton, 4th Baronet (17 November 1677 – 16 September 1739), of Barmston in the

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, was an English landowner and

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Life

Boynton was the eldest son of the Reverend Henry Boynton, Rector of Barmston. He was educated at Beverley Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. Admitted at

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in 1696, he became a barrister. He inherited the baronetcy on 22 December 1731, on the death of his cousin Sir Griffith Boynton, who had no children. He served in Parliament as member for

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from 1734 until his death five-and-a-half years later. On 8 April 1703, he married Frances Heblethwayte, daughter of James Heblethwayte, and they had three children: * Griffith Boynton (1712–1761), who succeeded to the baronetcy * Francis Boynton * Constance, who married Ralph Hutton

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