John Fettiplace was an English

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 at various times between 1626 and 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War

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Fettiplace was the son of Sir Edmund Fettiplace

Fettiplace

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 of Childrey

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 in Berkshire

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 (now Oxfordshire

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) and Swinbrook

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 in Oxfordshire and his wife, Anne, daughter of Richard Alford of Hitcham

Hitcham, Buckinghamshire

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 in Buckinghamshire

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. His father was 3rd cousin to John Fettiplace who was the MP for Berkshire in 1558. His mother had Thomas Vicars

Thomas Vicars

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' translation of Bartholomew Keckermann's Latin 'Manuduction to Theology' dedicated to her.

Fettiplace was baptised at Childrey on 23 May 1583. In 1626, Fettiplace was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Berkshire

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. He was re-elected in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was High Sheriff of Berkshire

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 in 1630.

In April 1640, Fettiplace was re-elected MP for Berkshire for the Short Parliament

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, and was elected again for the Long Parliament

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 in November 1640. He supported the King during the Civil War. He joined the King's parliament at Oxford and was disabled from sitting in parliament on 22 January 1644. He was later fined £1,943 for his delinquency. His nephew, also called John Fettiplace, was a colonel in the army of Prince Rupert and was made a baronet

Fettiplace Baronets

The Fettiplace Baronetcy, of Childrey in the County of Berkshire , was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 30 March 1661 for John Fettiplace as a reward for the support given by members of the family, particularly John's uncles John and Edmund, to the Royalist cause in the Civil...

 by Charles II after the Restoration.

He died on 21 March 1658 and is commemorated by one of the famous triple-decker effigial monuments in Swinbrook Church.