John Pleydell

John Pleydell (c. 1601 – 1693) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1689.

Pleydell was the son of Sir Charles Pleydell of Midgehall, Wiltshire and Kilburn Priory, Middlesex and his first wife Katherine Bourchier, daughter of Thomas Bourchier of Barnsley, Gloucestershire.

He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 6 November 1618, aged 17 and was a student of Inner Temple in 1621.

He was a J.P. for Wiltshire from July 1660 to June 1688 and commissioner for assessment from August 1660 to 1680.

He was elected MP for Wootton Bassett again in 1681 and 1685[1] Pleydell died unmarried at the age of about 92 and was buried at Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire on 12 January 1693.