Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet
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Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet (1649–1709), of Forty Hall, Enfield, and Denmark Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1709.
Wolstenholme was baptized on 19 October 1649, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wolstenholme, 2nd Baronet, of Minchendon, Edmonton, Middlesex, and his wife, Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Phineas Andrews of St Olave's, Hart Street, London.[2]
The Wolstenholme family acquired wealth and social position in Middlesex through service in the customs office. The second baronet built Minchington Hall in Southgate, Middlesex, after 1664.[3]
Wolstenholme was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1665, and at Inner Temple in 1668.[4] He married on 27 May 1675, aged 25, Mary Raynton (died 1691),[5] daughter of Nicholas Raynton, MP, of Forty Hall, Enfield, when he had £2,000 pa [clarification needed] in lands settled on him by his father.
However, his father's financial circumstances worsened. In 1690, the younger Wolstenholme had to petition Parliament for a bill to allow him to sell property to pay his father's debts. A year later, in November 1691, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and to the encumbered property.[2]
