John Rashleigh (1619–1693) of Coombe

John Rashleigh (21 January 1619 – 13 March 1693) of Coombe, near Fowey in Cornwall, was MP for Fowey from 1661 to 1679. He was a member of a branch of the more prominent Rashleigh family of Menabilly, near Fowey.

Arms of Rashleigh: Sable, a cross or between in the first quarter: a Cornish chough, argent beaked and legged gules; in the second quarter: a text "T"; in the third and fourth quarters: a crescent all of the third[1]

Rashleigh was the only surviving son of Robert Rashleigh (1585 – c. 1667), MP, of Coombe, near Fowey, Cornwall, by his first wife Mary Trefusis, daughter of Thomas Trefusis of Landew.[2][3]

He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1637 and entered Gray's Inn in 1639.[4]

He married in 1642 his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter of Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly, Cornwall and had 5 sons and 2 daughters

References
  1. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, vol.1
  2. History of Parliament biography of John Rashleigh
  3. Hunneyball, Paul, biography of Robert Rashleigh (1585-c.1667), of Coombe, nr. Fowey, published in History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  4. Brasenose College Register 1509-1909


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