John Doddington

John Doddington was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

John Doddington
Member of Parliament for Lymington
In office 1640–1640 Serving with John Kempe
Preceded by	Parliament suspended since 1629
Succeeded by	John Button Henry Campion
Personal details
Relations	Herbert Doddington (brother) Sir Edward Hoby, 1st Baronet (nephew)
Children	Margaret Doddington Anne Dodington
Parents	Sir William Doddington Mary Herbert Doddington
Residence	Breamore House

Early life

Breamore House, Hampshire.

Portrait of his sister, Katherine Doddington Hoby, by Pieter Borsselaer.

Doddington was the fourth son of the former Mary Herbert and Sir William Doddington (1572–1638) of Breamore, an MP who served as High Sheriff of Hampshire.[1] When his parents married, his mother brought the manor of Candleston Castle. His father settled the manor of South Charford on his brother Herbert Doddington when he married Elizabeth Colles in 1629. His sister Katherine Doddington married Peregrine Hoby, MP for Great Marlow, and his sister Ann Doddington married John Bulkeley, MP for Yarmouth, Newtown, Hampshire, Christchurch, Hampshire and Lymington.[2]

In 1629, his brother Henry Doddington was hanged in London for murdering their mother.[3]

His paternal grandfather was William Dodington of Breamore House (who died in 1600),[4] and his maternal grandparents were Margaret (née Morgan) Herbert and Sir John Herbert of Neath Abbey who served as Secretary of State under Elizabeth I and James I.

Career

After his brother Herbert died childless in 1633, his father held the manor of South Charford again until his death in 1638, when John inherited all his estates and Breamore House.[5]

In April 1640, Doddington was elected Member of Parliament for Lymington in the Short Parliament.[6]

Personal life

Doddington married a sister of Sir Thomas Trench.[2] Together they had two daughters:[7]

• Margaret Doddington, who married Sir Thomas Hannan but died childless.[8]
• Anne Dodington (c. 1642–1690), who married Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke (c. 1641–1676), son of Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke. After his death in 1676, she married Thomas Hoby MP for Great Marlow and Salisbury.[9]

Descendants

Through his daughter Anne, he was a grandfather of Doddington Greville, Duchess of Manchester (1671–1720), who married Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester in 1690,[10] as well as John, Francis, Charles, Robert, William, and Fulke Greville. As all their sons died before their father, the titles passed to his younger brother, Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke (1643–1710), who inherited the manor of South Charford remaining in the family until around 1748, when Francis Greville, 8th Baron Brooke sold his Hampshire estates.[11]

References

1. "DODINGTON (DORRINGTON), Sir William I (1572-1638), of Breamore, Hants". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
2. Traherne, John Montgomery; Cradock, Sir Matthew (1840). Historical Notices of Sir M. Cradock, Knt., of Swansea, in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
3. Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 1957. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
4. Oglander, Sir John (1936). A Royalist's Notebook: The Commonplace Book of Sir John Oglander, Kt., of Nunwell, Born 1585, Died 1655. Constable & Company, Limited. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
5. 'Parishes: North Charford with South Charford', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 560-563. Date accessed: 20 April 2011
6. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
7. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 334.
8. Page, William (1911). A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. A. Constable, limited. p. 562. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
9. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 334. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
10. "Greville Doddington, Duchess of Manchester | Kneller, John Zachary | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Victoria and Albert Museum. 25 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
11. British History Online, Victoria County History, North Charford with South Charford