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John Stawell

Sir John Stawell or Stowell, 29 August 1600 – 21 February 1662, was MP for Somerset at various times from 1625 to 1662, and one of the leading Royalists in the West Country during the First English Civil War.

Sir John Stawell
MP, JP KB

29 August 1600
Cothelstone Manor, Somerset

February 21, 1662(1662-02-21) (aged 61)
Cothelstone Manor, Somerset

St Thomas, Cothelstone[1]

English

Elizabeth Killigrew (died 1657)

Five sons, two daughters

Sir John Stawell, Elizabeth Touchet

Queen's College, Oxford

Landowner

Royalists

1642 to 1646

Colonel

First English Civil War
Bridgwater; Exeter 1646

Captured at Exeter in 1646, he was excluded from the general pardon, and held in the Tower of London until 1653. After the Stuart Restoration in 1660, his estates were returned and he was re-elected to the Cavalier Parliament in April 1661.

Personal life[edit]

John Stawell was born in August 1600, eldest surviving son of Sir John Stawell of Cothelstone Manor and Elizabeth Tuchet, daughter of the Earl of Castlehaven.


He married Elizabeth Killgrew (died 1657) in December 1617;[1] they had two daughters, and five sons who survived to adulthood, three of whom fought for the Royalists in the First English Civil War.[2]

Death[edit]

He died on 21 February 1662, and was buried in the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Cothelstone.[1] He was succeeded by his son George, who died in 1669[6] and was in turn succeeded by his younger brother Ralph (c.1641–1689).[7] Ralph also sat as an MP and in 1683 was created Baron Stawell.

Davidson, Alan (2010). . Brewer & Boydell.

STAWELL, Sir John (1600-62), of Cothelstone, Somerset in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604–1629

Wroughton, John (2008). "Stawell, Sir John". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26331. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Wedgwood, CV (1958). The King's War, 1641-1647 (2001 ed.). Penguin Classics.  978-0141390727.

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