John Plumptre MP (1679 - 1751)

Born 9 Feb 1679 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Annabella (Molyneux) Plumptre — married 3 Oct 1707 in Teversal, Nottinghamshire, England

Descendants

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Biography

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John Plumptre was a Whig politician in the first part of the 18th century.

He was the son and heir of Henry Plumptre and his second wife Joyce Sacheverell, ^{[1] [2]} christened at St Peter's church, Nottingham, on 19 January 1679/80.

He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 4 July 1696 ^[3] and to Queens' College Cambridge on 5 May 1697. ^[4]

He followed his father as a Whig, Parliament to represent the borough of Nottingham discontinuously from 1706. ^[5] From 1704 he was Governor of the family's charity, Plumptre Hospital, and restored it to fulfill the original intentions of the founder. ^[6]

He married Annabella, daughter of Sir Francis Molyneux bt, at Teversal, Nottinghamshire, on 3 October 1707.^[7] They had a numerous family of six sons and four daughters. Several of the sons took up careers in the church.

He was named as a trustee and executor in the 1749 Will ^[8] of his brother Fitzwilliam Plumptre Esq.

He was buried at St Mary's Nottingham on 7 October 1751. ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ County Genealogies: Pedigrees of the Families of the County of Kent by William Berry. Published 1830 by Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. Pedigree of Plumptre of Nottingham, page 91. p. 91
2. ↑ Burke, Commoners, vol III p. 74 Plumptre
3. ↑ Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple, p. 240 MTAR
4. ↑ Venn, JA. Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3, p. 374. Cambridge University Press p. 374
5. ↑ History of Parliament online 1690-1715: PLUMPTRE, John (1680-1751), of Plumptre House, Nottingham
6. ↑ 'Hospitals: Plumtree's, Nottingham', in A History of the County of Nottingham: Volume 2, (London, 1910) pp. 174-175. British History Online BHO
7. ↑ Thoroton Society, Poll books of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire 1710 (1957), page xiv
8. ↑ PROB 11/775/240 proved 11 December 1749
9. ↑ Notes on the Parish Registers of St. Mary's Nottingham, 1566 to 1812, p. 46. HB Saxton, 1901. p. 46

• Burke Commoners vol III p. 74 Plumptre

• Wikipedia: John Plumptre (elder)

• History of Parliament online 1690-1715: PLUMPTRE, John (1680-1751), of Plumptre House, Nottingham

County Genealogies: Pedigrees of the Families of the County of Kent by William Berry. Published 1830 by Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. Pedigree of Plumptre of Nottingham, page 91.