John Barker (MP for Ilchester) explained

John Barker was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

Barker was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 13 September 1651 he was elected alderman for the City of London for Bread Street ward.^[1]

In 1659, Barker was elected Member of Parliament for Ilchester in the Third Protectorate Parliament.^[2] Barker married a daughter of Thomas Westrow who was alderman and sheriff of London in 1625.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67242 'Chronological list of aldermen: 1651-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 75-119. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67242 Date accessed: 16 July 2011
2. 1. 2. 229–239.
3. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67247 'Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 168-195. Date accessed: 16 July 2011