British politician
John Monson, 1st Baron Monson PC c. 1693 – 18 July 1748), known as Sir John Monson, 5th Baronet , from 1727 to 1728, was a British politician.
Life
He was the son of George Monson of Broxbourne , Hertfordshire , and Anne, daughter of Charles Wren of the Isle of Ely . He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford , on 26 January 1708. On 4 April 1722, he was returned to the House of Commons for the city of Lincoln , and was re-elected on 30 August 1727.
He was appointed a knight of the Bath on 17 June 1725, when that order was reconstituted by George I . He succeeded in the family baronetcy, in March 1727, on the death of his uncle Sir William . On 28 May of the following year he was created a peer, with the title of Baron Monson of Burton, Lincolnshire . In June 1733, Monson was named Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners , and in June 1737 was appointed first commissioner of trade and plantations . In this office, he was confirmed when the board was reconstituted in 1745, and he continued to hold it until his death. On 31 July 1737, he was made a privy councillor .
Monson died on 20 July 1748, and the Duke of Newcastle , in a letter to the Duke of Bedford , dated 12 August 1748, condoles with him upon "the loss of so valuable a man and so amiable a friend" Bedford in reply uses similar expressions of regret.
Family
He married Lady Margaret Watson, youngest daughter of Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham , on S April 1725; they had three sons: John, 2nd baron Monson (see below) ; Lewis Thomas , who assumed the name of Watson, and was created Baron Sondes in 1760 ; and George Monson.
Notes
Attribution public domain : Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1894). "Monson, John (1693-1748) ". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography
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