Sir John St Leger of Annery in Devon

Devon

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, was an English Member of Parliament

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He was the grandson of John St Leger and Katherine Neville. Their daughter Catherine married George Courtenay.

He represented Dartmouth

Dartmouth (UK Parliament constituency)

Dartmouth, also at some times called Clifton, Dartmouth and Hardness, was a parliamentary borough in Devon which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in 1298 and to the Commons of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom from 1351 until 1832, and then one member from...

 in the Parliament of 1555, Arundel

Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1562-3, Devon

Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1571 and 1572–81 and Tregony

Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)

Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act....

in 1584-5.
He died with no sons surviving, and having previously alienated his Annery estate.