John Hedworth (10 July 1683 – 31 May 1747), of Chester Deanery, Durham, was a British colliery owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years from 1713 to 1747.
He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford on 18 March 1700, aged 16, and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1700.
He was lobbied to oppose a petition proposed by William Wrightson to make the way-leaves on the Tyne free and was involved in helping to draft a bill enabling the endowment of poor vicarages.
[2] Hedworth was returned as a Whig at the 1715 general election but continued to show himself as of an independent mind.
He was Mayor of Hartlepool for a third time for the year 1740 to 1741 and was returned as MP for County Durham at the 1741 general election.