John Bush (High Sheriff) Explained

John Bush (c. 1745 – date of death unknown) was an English landowner and officer of militia who served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1773.

Early life

Born about 1745, a son of Jonathan Bush of Burcot, Bush was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School).^[1] On 14 December 1762 he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, aged seventeen. His only graduation recorded in Alumni Oxonienses is as a Doctor of Civil Law on 8 July 1773.

Career

Bush is noted as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in July 1773.^[2] He was a Steward of the Club of Old Abingdonians in 1774^[3] and in the Enclosure Award of 1776 was one of the two principal landowners in the parish of Burcot.^[1] He held the rank of captain in the Oxfordshire Militia list of 1779.

Personal life

On 10 March 1770, at Albury, Oxfordshire, Bush married Susanna Wingrove of that parish.^[4]

See also

• List of Old Abingdonians

Notes and References

1. Book: Richardson, William H. List of Some Distinguished Persons Educated at Abingdon School 1563-1855. 1905. 6. Hughes Market Place (Abingdon).
2. Book: University of Oxford. A Catalogue of all Graduates in Divinity, Law and Medicine.. 1801. 74. Clarendon Press.
3. Web site: Stewards of the OA Club. Abingdon School.
4. Register of Marriages in the Parish of Albury, No. 15, John Bush Esq. of the Parish of Dorchester, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 17 September 2021