Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet (died 1624) was an English landowner.

Career and family

He was the son of John Tufton and Mary Baker, a daughter of Sir John Baker.[1] His family home was at Hothfield in Kent.

He twice served as Sheriff of Kent, was knighted in 1603, and made a baronet in 1611.[2]

His first wife was Olympia Blower, a daughter of Christopher Blower of Sileham and Bloor's Place, Rainham. Their children included:

Tufton married, secondly, Christian Browne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Browne. His children with Christian Browne included:[3]

He died in 1624.[6] He and his first wife, Olympia, were buried at Hothfield, and reburied in the Tufton aisle at Rainham.[7]

References

  1. Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), p. 29.
  2. Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), p. 23.
  3. Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), pp. 32-47.
  4. Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern History (Boydell, 2014), pp. 157-8.
  5. 'St Dunstan's in the West', Collectanea topographica et genealogica, 4 (London, 1837), p. 125.
  6. Robert Pococke, Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet (Gravesend, 1800), p. 30.
  7. A. J. Pearman, 'Rainham Church', Archaeologia Cantiana, 17 (1887), pp. 51-2
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