Sir John BACKHOUSE K.B.

   Research Notes:

eldest son

an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1629. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Great Marlow and was re-elected MP for Great Marlow in 1626.[2] He was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles I in 1626, the year in which he inherited Swallowfield Park. In 1628 he was re-elected MP for Great Marlow and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

Backhouse supported the King in the Civil War and as a result he was imprisoned and his estates were sequestrated. He died on 9 October 1649 and a monument was erected to his memory by his widow in Swallowfield Church.

   Marriage Information:

John married Flora HENSHAW. (Flora HENSHAW died on an unknown date.)