John Stanford I

John Stanford (1537–1603) was an English politician.[1]

He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanford, Mayor of Leicester.[1] His grandfather, a prosperous butcher, had acquired the manor of Barkby in 1552 and Stanford inherited it along with the rectory from his father in 1583.[2][3][1]

He was made a Freeman of Leicester in 1558, chamberlain in 1565, coroner in 1573–74 and mayor in 1576–77 and 1592–93.[1] He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Leicester in 1572 and 1593.[1]

He married as his second wife Elizabeth (d. 1611), the daughter of his godfather John Heyrick (d. 1589), an alderman of Leicester, and cousin of the poet Robert Herrick[4]

He died in March 1603 and was buried at Barkby, where a funeral monument was later erected to commemorate him, his wife and eldest son.[5]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e "STANFORD, John I (1537-1603), of Leicester and Elmesthorpe, Leics". History of Parliament. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  2. ^ Nichols, John (1800). The History and Antiquities of Leicestershire. Vol. 3 pt 1. p. 45.
  3. ^ Records of the Borough of Leicester. Vol. 3. 1905. p. 326.
  4. ^ Fletcher, William George Dimock (1885). Some early notices of the Herrick family. p. 14.
  5. ^ Nichols 1800, p. 48.
  6. ^ a b c Nichols 1800, p. 51.
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