John Stanford I
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John Stanford (1537–1603) was an English politician.[1]
He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanford, Mayor of Leicester.[1] His grandfather, a prosperous butcher, had acquired the manor of Barkby in 1552 and Stanford inherited it along with the rectory from his father in 1583.[2][3][1]
He was made a Freeman of Leicester in 1558, chamberlain in 1565, coroner in 1573–74 and mayor in 1576–77 and 1592–93.[1] He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Leicester in 1572 and 1593.[1]
He married as his second wife Elizabeth (d. 1611), the daughter of his godfather John Heyrick (d. 1589), an alderman of Leicester, and cousin of the poet Robert Herrick[4]
He died in March 1603 and was buried at Barkby, where a funeral monument was later erected to commemorate him, his wife and eldest son.[5]
