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John Barker (MP for Ilchester)

John Barker (MP for Ilchester)

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John Barker was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

Barker was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 13 September 1651 he was elected alderman for the City of London for Bread Street ward.[1]

In 1659, Barker was elected Member of Parliament for Ilchester in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[2]

Barker married a daughter of Thomas Westrow who was alderman and sheriff of London in 1625.[3]

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  1. [1]
    'Chronological list of aldermen: 1651-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 75-119. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67242 Date accessed: 16 July 2011
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    Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
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    'Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 168-195. Date accessed: 16 July 2011
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