Michael Warton (died 1688)

Michael Warton DL (1623 – 9 August 1688) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660.

He was educated at Beverley Grammar School and at St John's College, Cambridge in 1640, and was a student of Gray's Inn in 1640.

He served in the Royalist army until the Battle of Marston Moor and paid £1,600 on estate of his father for delinquency.

He was re-elected MP for Beverley in the two elections of 1679 and in February 1680 he was seen in London coffee houses speaking against the Duke of York and making his audience drink to the Duke of Monmouth.

[1] Warton died in London at the age of about 65 and was buried at St John's, Beverley.