John Wells (1761 – 22 November 1848)[1] was an English Tory[2] politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1820 to 1830.
[3] He was born in West Malling, Kent,[4] the second son of William Wells, of Bickley Hall, Bromley in Kent and Holme Hall, Huntingdonshire, by his wife Elizabeth, sister of Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bank of England.
[6] He was among the leading shipbuilders on the River Thames, a partner in yards at Deptford, Rotherhithe and Blackwall.
[7] He served as High Sheriff of Kent for 1812, and then stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Maidstone in 1818.
[2] Wells was a strong opponent of the Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1828, declaring that he would fight to defend the Protestant Constitution "until he was up to his knees in blood".