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Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet (died 1624) was an English landowner.

Career and family

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He was the son of John Tufton and Mary Baker, a daughter of Sir John Baker.[1] His family home was at Hothfield in Kent.

He twice served as Sheriff of Kent, was knighted in 1603, and made a baronet in 1611.[2]

His first wife was Olympia Blower, a daughter of Christopher Blower of Sileham and Bloor's Place, Rainham. Their children included:

Tufton married, secondly, Christian Browne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne. His children with Christian Browne included:[3]

He died in 1624.[6] He and his first wife, Olympia, were buried at Hothfield, and reburied in the Tufton aisle at Rainham.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), p. 29.
  2. ^ Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), p. 23.
  3. ^ Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), pp. 32-47.
  4. ^ Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern History (Boydell, 2014), pp. 157-8.
  5. ^ 'St Dunstan's in the West', Collectanea topographica et genealogica, 4 (London, 1837), p. 125.
  6. ^ Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), p. 30.
  7. ^ A. J. Pearman, 'Rainham Church', Archaeologia Cantiana, 17 (1887), pp. 51-2
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
New creation
Baronet
(of Hothfield)
1611–1624
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