John Bush (High Sheriff)
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John Bush (c. 1745 – date of death unknown) was an English landowner and officer of militia who served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1773.
Born about 1745, a son of Jonathan Bush of Burcot, Bush was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School).[1] On 14 December 1762 he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, aged seventeen. His only graduation recorded in Alumni Oxonienses is as a Doctor of Civil Law on 8 July 1773.[2]
Career
Bush is noted as Sheriff of Oxfordshire in July 1773.[3] He was a Steward of the Club of Old Abingdonians in 1774[4] and in the Enclosure Award of 1776 was one of the two principal landowners in the parish of Burcot.[1] He held the rank of captain in the Oxfordshire Militia list of 1779.