John Praed (c. 1657 – 10 October 1717), of Trevethoe, near St Ives, Cornwall, was an English merchant and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1713.
Two London merchants, Daniel Gates and William Warre, sent him an order to buy up all the currants at Morea and to draw bills of exchange payable in Venice.
Warre made an unsuccessful appeal and refused to pay, whereupon Praed had him committed to the Fleet Prison and applied to sequester his estates.
[1] In 1693 Praed was approached by Abraham Anselm who wanted to recruit men for the exiled King James II to whom he replied that although he was a man of misfortune, yet he was a true subject of the government established.
In 1706 he succeeded his brother James to the family estates at Trevethoe, which turned out to be encumbered with debt.