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John St John, 2nd Viscount St John

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in 1717 and was sent to Paris in 1720 to complete his education under Bolingbroke's care. In 1721 his father invested £4,000 to acquire the reversion of a customs sinecure worth £1,200 a year for the lives of his two younger sons, John and Holles. St John married Anne Furnese, daughter of
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MP, and his second wife Angelica Magdalena Wharton, widow of Phillip Wharton and daughter of Claude Pelissary, treasurer-general of the navy to Louis XIV. When John St. John was a child his elder half-brother, Bolingbroke, was attainted and excluded by special remainder from succeeding to the
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St John was appointed Comptroller of customs in London in April 1740 holding the post for life. On his father's death on 8 April 1742, he succeeded not only to the title under special remainder as 2nd Viscount St. John but to
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on the family interest. He voted with the Opposition except on the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. He did not stand again at the
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St. John died abroad in November 1748, leaving three sons and three daughters.
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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Index

Lydiard Tregoze
House of Commons
Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John
Eton College
Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet
Waldershare
1727 British general election
Member of Parliament
Wootton Bassett
1734 British general election

Lydiard Park



"ST. JOHN, Hon. John (1702-48), of Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts"
Parliament of Great Britain
Colonel Robert Murray
William Chetwynd
Member of Parliament
Wootton Bassett
1727
1734
John Crosse
Sir Robert Long
Captain Nicholas Robinson
Peerage of Great Britain
Henry St John
Viscount St John
Frederick St John

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