Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet

Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet (1756 – 4 February 1824) of Walliscot in Oxfordshire was Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading in Berkshire from 1797 to 1802 and from 1806 to 1818. He also practised as barrister and a member of Lincoln's Inn, and held the offices of Recorder of Reading 1779-1807 and Master in Chancery from 1795 until 1808 when he became Senior Master, and was created 1st Baronet Simeon in 1815.^[1]

Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830) (Thomas Lawrence)

Simeon was the second eldest son of Richard Simeon (died 1784) and Elizabeth Hutton.^[2] His elder brother, named Richard after their father, died early. The third brother, Edward Simeon, was a director of the Bank of England.^[3] His youngest brother, Charles Simeon, became a prominent evangelical clergyman.^[3][4]

Family

John Simeon married Rebecca Cornwall, daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House in Middlesex, in 1783. They had a number of children:

• Richard G. Simeon (21 May 1784 – 11 January 1855) married Louisa-Edith Barrington on 8 April 1813, producing three sons and two daughters ^[5]
• Harriet Simeon (died 15 November 1845) married Sir Frederick Francis Baker, 2nd Baronet in July 1814, producing 1 daughter and 3 sons.

Notes

1. The Peerage.com
2. Simeon 1847, pp. 1–2.
3. Simeon 1847, p. 2.
4. "Simeon, Charles (SMN779C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. The Gentleman's Magazine

References

• Simeon, Charles (1847). Carus, Rev. William, ed. Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon. London: Hatchard and Son. Retrieved 31 May 2013.