John Strode (c. 1561 – 1642)

Born circa 1561, Strode was the third son of John Strode of Parnham, Dorset and his first wife, Katherine, daughter of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour.[1]

Strode was educated at New Inn, then Middle Temple, 1583. He was called to the bar in 1590.[1]

Strode, a lawyer by profession, who gained a reputation as "an honest, trusty, learned, religious gentleman",[2] served as a Justice of the Peace for Dorset by 1593–1642, commissioner sewers 1617, martial law 1626, knighthood compositions 1631, piracy 1631.[1]

He was Autumn reader, Middle Temple in 1611, bencher from 1611 to 1642, treasurer from 1619 to 1620; recorder, Bridport, Dorset from 1618 to 1640. He was knighted at Theobalds 1 December 1623.[1][3]

He died at the Middle Temple before 15 July in 1642.[1][3] His widow was murdered defending Parnham House, near Beaminster in Dorset, in 1645 by a soldier under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax during the Civil War.[2]

Strode married twice. He married firstly, Anne (d. 8 Aug. 1621), daughter of William Chaldecote of Quarleston, Dorset, and widow of Robert Bingham (d. 1587) of Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset, by whom he had no children.[1]

He married secondly, 12 January 1622, Ann (d. 1645), daughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, by whom he had four sons and two daughters:[1]

• Sir John Strode (1624–1679)[2]
• Sir George Strode[2] died c.1707
• Hugh Strode[2]
• Thomas Strode[2]

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