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

House of Commons of England

The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain...

  in 1640.

Doddington was the son of Sir William Doddington of Breamore

Breamore

Breamore is a village and civil parish near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England. The toponym is pronounced "Bremmer", not "Bree-moor" as might be supposed. The parish includes a notable Elizabethan country house, Breamore House, built with an E-shaped ground plan...

, Hampshire. He inherited the estates and Breamore House

Breamore House

Breamore House is an Elizabethan manor house noted for its fine collection of paintings and furniture and situated in Breamore, just north of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England.Breamore House was completed in 1583 by the Dodington family...

 on the death of his father in 1638.
In April 1640, Doddington was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Lymington

Lymington (UK Parliament constituency)

Lymington was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.-1584-1640:- 1640-1868 :...

 in the Short Parliament

Short Parliament

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Doddington had two daughters. Margaret married Sir Thomas Hannan but died childless. Ann

Anne Dodington

Anne Dodington was the daughter of John Doddington. She married, firstly, Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, son of Robert Greville Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court and Lady Catherine Russell. Later, she married Thomas Hoby sometime after 1677...

 married, firstly, Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke, son of Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke

Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke

Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke was an English Civil War Roundhead General.Greville was the cousin and adopted son of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, and thus became 2nd Lord Brooke, and owner of Warwick Castle. He was born in 1607, and entered parliament for Warwickshire in 1628...

. She married secondly Thomas Hoby

Thomas Hoby

Sir Thomas Hoby was an English diplomat and translator. He was born in 1530, the second son of William Hoby of Leominster, Herefordshire, by his second wife, Katherine, daughter of John Forden. He matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1546...

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