John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace

John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace (February 1616 – 25 November 1670 was a British peer and Royal servant.

Life

John was born in Hurley, Berkshire the son of Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace and his wife, Margaret, the daughter of London merchant William Dodworth, and educated at Christchurch College, Oxford. He lived at Ladye Place at Hurley which he inherited on the death of his father.

He was an ardent Royalist and was committed by the Parliamentarians to the Tower of London and made to pay a heavy fine of 18,373l. 1s. 10d. After the restoration of the Monarchy he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 28 August 1660 to 25 November 1670. In 1670 he was made steward of the old Royal palace at Woodstock and died in the palace gatehouse on 25 September 1670. He was buried in the old priory church in Hurley.^[1]

After his death he was succeeded by his son John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace. His wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland, succeeded her niece as 7th Baroness Wentworth, which after her death passed to their granddaughter Martha Johnson.

References

1. Seccombe 1893.

Attribution

 Seccombe, Thomas (1893). "Lovelace, John". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 166–168.