John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville

John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville (4 December 1607 – 31 March 1682) was an English soldier, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1665 when he was created a peer and then sat in the House of Lords.

[1] He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 23 June 1621, aged 14 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1624.

Although a Royalist, he had useful contacts among the Parliamentarians and was required to pay a modest fine of £287 10s.4d conditional upon endowing a local chapel.

[1] Just before the Restoration, Frescheville became involved in Royalist activities and crossed over to the Netherlands to obtain a fresh warrant for a peerage.

[1] In the Frescheville Chapel within the Church of St John the Baptist, Staveley, survives a fine heraldic stained glass window, made in 1676 by Henry Gyles of York, in memory of the 1st Baron.