Born
about 1749 in
Middlesex, England
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Descendants
Died 9 Sep 1831
at about age 82
[location unknown]
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Biography
c1749, Middlesex, the son of John Sargent of Middlesex & Rosamund Chambers.[1]
Cambridge University Alumni:
Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, June 5, 1767. [2nd] s. of John, merchant, of Middlesex [and May Place, Kent] (and Rosamund Chambers). School, Eton.
Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 5, 1770.
M.P. for Seaford, 1790-3; for Queenborough, 1794-1802; for Bodmin, 1802-6.
Clerk of the Ordnance, 1793-1802.
Joint Secretary to the Treasury, 1802-4. Of Woollavington, Sussex.
Married, Dec. 21, 1778, Charlotte, only dau. and heiress of Richard Bettesworth, of Petworth, Sussex.
Author, The Mine and other poems.
Died Sept. 9, 1831.
Brother of George A. (1766); father of the next.[2]
The marriage of John Sargent & Charlotte Bettesworth was conducted 21 December 1778, Woolavington, Sussex. [3]
15 September 1831, Lavington, St. Peter, Sussex.[5]
Sources
↑ http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk
↑ http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk
↑ England Marriages (1538-1973) (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N22H-M4F )
↑ http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk
↑ England Deaths & Burials (1538-1991) ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8HD-9Y8 )
W. P. Courtney, ‘Sargent, John (1780–1833)’, rev. Ellie Clewlow, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Sept 2017 . This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
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