John Hayward (MP for Bridgnorth and Saltash) explained

Honorific-Prefix:Sir
John Hayward
Honorific-Suffix:JP
Office:High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire
Term Start:1632
Term End:1633
Constituency Mp2:Saltash
Term Start2:February 1626
Term End2:June 1626
Office3:High Sheriff of Kent
Term Start3:1623
Term End3:1624
Constituency Mp4:Bridgnorth
Term Start4:January 1621
Term End4:January 1622
Birth Date:1591
Birth Place:London
Death Place:Rochester, Kent
Restingplace:St Alphege London Wall
Death Date:1636
Nationality:English
Spouse:Anne Livesey (ca. 1624-his death)
Alma Mater:Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Occupation:Landowner and politician

Sir John Hayward (c. 1591 – April 1636) was an English politician and landowner. He was MP for Bridgnorth in 1621 and for Saltash in 1626, as well as High Sheriff of Kent in 1623 and of Montgomeryshire in 1632.

Personal details

John Hayward was born in 1591, second surviving son of Sir Rowland Hayward (1520-1593) and his second wife Catherine Smythe. Originally from an old Shropshire family, his father was a wealthy merchant and twice Lord Mayor of London.

In 1615, Hayward inherited his elder brother George's estates in Acton Burnell; around 1624, he moved to Hollingbourne in Kent and married his recently widowed cousin Anne, mother of Sir Michael Livesey, a regicide who approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649. They had no children and when he died in 1636, he was buried next to his father in St Alphege London Wall. His will records him as being resident in Rochester, Kent.

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