John Ireton

Sir John Ireton (1615 – 1689) was Lord Mayor of London in 1658 and brother of General Henry Ireton.^[1]

Biography

John Ireton was knighted by Oliver Cromwell, and purchased the estate of Radcliffe-on-Soar, in Nottinghamshire from Colonel Hutchinson.^[2] In 1652 he was appointed a Sheriff of London and in 1658 elected Lord Mayor of London.^[3]

In 1660 at the Restoration, he was excluded from the Act of Indemnity, and for a time imprisoned in the Tower of London.^[4] An allusion to which circumstance is made by Pepys in his "Diary," under the date 1 December 1661.^[5] According to a letter in the State Papers, in 1662 he was removed to the Scilly Islands; but if this were so, he was shortly after liberated, for in a list of thirteen "fanatics" at East Sheen, in 1664, where "conventicles were innumerable," is the name of "John Ireton, Formerly Lord Mayor."^[2] in 1685 he was again imprisoned for seditious practices,^[6] and, dying in 1689, was buried in London at the church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less.^[2]

Notes

1. Lee 1903, p. 88.
2. Brown 1896.
3. "Mayors and Sheriffs of London". British History Online. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
4. Firth 1892, p. 42.
5. Brown 1896: See Pepys, Diary, 1 December 1661
6. Firth 1892, p. 42 cites: Noble, i, 445; Cat. State Papers, Dom. 1661-2, p. 460

References

• Firth, C.H. (1892). "Ireton, Henry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 42. (see paragraph at the end of the main article)
•  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Ireton, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 42.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Brown, Cornelius (1896). "Attenborough, Kingston-on-Soar, and Bradmore". A history of Nottinghamshire. website of Andy Nicholson. {{cite book}}: External link in |publisher= (help)