Sir John Rogers, 1st Baronet

Sir John Rogers, 1st Baronet (c. 1649 – 23 April 1710) was an English merchant and Member of Parliament.[1]

For other people named John Rogers, see John Rogers (disambiguation).

He was the eldest son and only surviving child of John Rogers and his wife Elizabeth Payne, daughter of Sir Robert Payne.[2]

He became a customs official in Plymouth and then moved to Bristol to engage in the lucrative tobacco trade, becoming a wealthy man. With his fortune he acquired several estates in the Plymouth area such as Cornwood, Ivybridge and Blachford, making Blachford over to his son John on the latter's marriage in 1698.[3]

Rogers became a common councilman in Plymouth and was made an alderman in 1694–96. He entered the English House of Commons as member of parliament (MP) for Plymouth in 1698, representing the constituency for the next two years.[4] He was created a baronet, of Wisdome, in the County of Devon on 21 February 1699[5] and was appointed High Sheriff of Devon in 1701.[2]

Rogers died in Plymouth and was buried at Charles Church, Plymouth.[6] He had married, in 1696, Mary Vincent, daughter of William Spencer Vincent.[7] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by their only surviving son John.[5]

References
  1. "ROGERS, John (c.1649-1710), of Wiscombe and Blackford, Devon". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  2. Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. II. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 532–533.
  3. "Million pound estates for sale in England". Country Life. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  4. "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Plymouth". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 400.
  6. "ThePeerage – Sir John Rogers, 1st Bt". Retrieved 27 January 2007.
  7. Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. pp. 361–362.


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