Sir John Gell, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Gell, 2nd Baronet (1613 – 8 February 1689) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1689.

Early life

He was baptized at Kedleston in October 1613. Gell was the son of Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet of Hopton, Derbyshire, and his wife Elizabeth Willoughby, daughter of Sir Percival Willoughby of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.[1]

He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 23 November 1632, aged 17.[2]

Career

In 1654, Gell was elected Member of Parliament for Derbyshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Derbyshire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. In 1659 he was re-elected MP for Derbyshire for the Third Protectorate Parliament.[3]

Gell inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1671. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1673.[2] In January 1689, he was elected MP for Derbyshire but died a month later at the age of 76.[4]

Personal life

Gell married the religious patron Katherine Packer, daughter of Philippa (born Mills) and John Packer of Donnington Castle, Berkshire. Together, they were the parents of four sons and three daughters of whom six survived infancy. Their first child Katherine was baptised in Westminster Abbey in 1645:[5]

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Philip. The baronetcy became extinct upon his son's death in 1719.[1]

Descendants

As his son Philip died without issue, his grandson, John Eyre, assumed the surname Gell to inherit the lands at Hopton after Philip's death in 1719.[1] John Eyre Gell was the father of Admiral John Gell and Philip Eyre Gell, who eventually inherited the Gell family fortune,[7] and was himself the father of Philip Gell, MP for Malmesbury and Penryn, and the renowned antiquarian Sir William Gell.[8]

Another grandson, William Eyre, MP for Berkshire, assumed the surname Archer to inherit the estates of Sir John Archer. Among his four children were John Archer (who married Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, a daughter of John Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam), Michael Archer (MP for Beverley), Catherine Archer (wife of Philip Blundell) and Susanna Archer (wife of Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer).[6]

References
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke. p. 217. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Gabel-Gilmore', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 542–568. Date accessed: 7 August 2011
  3. 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.
  4. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)
  5. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/66997. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66997. Retrieved 8 February 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica. Hamilton, Adams, and Company. 1874. p. 482. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  7. Fitton, R. S. (1989), The Arkwrights: spinners of fortune, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 57, ISBN 978-0-7190-2646-1, retrieved 14 August 2010
  8. "WIRKSWORTH-Parish Records 1608-1899-Hopton Hall Auction". www.wirksworth.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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