Sir John Curzon, 1st Baronet

Sir John Curzon, 1st Baronet PC, JP
Monument to Sir John Curzon, All Saints Church, Kedleston
Member of Parliament for Derbyshire
In office 1640 – 1648 (excluded by Pride's Purge)
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
In office 1637–1638
Member of Parliament for Brackley
In office 1628–1629
Personal details
Born	13 November 1598 Kedleston Hall
Died	13 December 1686(1686-12-13) (aged 88) Kedleston Hall
Resting place	All Saints Church, Kedleston
Nationality	English
Political party	Parliamentarian
Spouse	Patience Crewe (1623–1642)
Children	Nathaniel
Residence	Kedleston Hall
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Occupation	Landowner and politician

Sir John Curzon, 1st Baronet (13 November 1598 – 13 December 1686), of Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, was an English politician and landowner who served as a Member of Parliament from 1628 to 1629, then 1640 to 1648. A devout Presbyterian, he supported the Parliamentarian cause during the First English Civil War, but was excluded by Pride's Purge in 1648.

Personal details

John Curzon was born 13 November 1598, eldest son of John Curzon (1552–1632) of Kedleston Hall, who was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1609, and Millicent Sacheveral (1571–1618), daughter of Sir Ralph Sacheverel of Staunton, and widow of Thomas Gell (1552–1594) of Hopton, Derbyshire.

In 1623 he married Patience Crewe (1600–1642), daughter of Sir Thomas Crewe of Stene, Northamptonshire; they had four sons and three daughters.

Career

Curzon graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1618, aged 18, then attended the Inner Temple in 1620. In 1628 he was elected Member of Parliament for Brackley and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He inherited the Kedleston estate on his father's death in 1632.

Curzon was created a Baronet, of Kedleston in the County of Derby, in both the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 18 June 1636 and the Baronetage of England on 11 August 1641. He served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1637. In April 1640, he was elected as MP for Derbyshire in the Short Parliament and in November 1640 re-elected MP for Derbyshire for the Long Parliament, sitting until he was excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648.

Curzon died in 1686 and was buried at All Saints Church, Kedleston. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest surviving son Nathaniel (1636–1719).

Sources

• Moseley, Virginia; Sgroi, Rosemary (2010). CURZON, John (1598–1686), of Kedleston, Derbys. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. Boydell & Brewer. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
• findagrave.com burial record