John Boys was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  at various times between 1645 and 1656.

Boys was born at Betteshanger

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, Kent. the son of Edward Boys. He was educated at Canterbury and Winchester. He was admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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  on 22 July 1623 aged 16, and was admitted at Gray's Inn

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 on 1 November 1626.

In 1645, Boys was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Kent

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 in the Long Parliament

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. He was elected MP for Kent again in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament

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 and 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament

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Boys died in 1678 and had a monument at Betteshanger.