Martin Lister (MP)

Sir Martin Lister (1602/03, Midhope, Yorkshire – 1670, Burwell, Lincolnshire) was an English farmer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.

[1] Lister was a landowner of Radcliffe, Buckinghamshire,[2] Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire, and Burwell, Lincolnshire.

[4] Lister died in Burwell, small village in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire.

[6] After her death, he married secondly in 1633 Susan(na) Thornhurst (1600–1669),[7] widow of Sir Gifford Thornhurst, 1st Baronet, daughter of Sir Alexander Temple of St. Margaret's, Rochester, Kent and sister of the regicide, James Temple.

Her trustee for the marriage settlement was her half brother Sir Thomas Peniston.