1634 – 18 March 1688), styled Lord St John of Bletsoe from 1642 to 1646, was a British peer and landowner in Bedfordshire.
[citation needed] The St John family were Presbyterians and supported Parliament during the English Civil War, but did not take part in government during the Interregnum.
In 1661, he succeeded his relative Samuel Browne as recorder of Bedford, and took the oath against the Covenant upon becoming a freeman of the town.
[1] He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Bedfordshire in 1667 after the death of the 1st Earl of Cleveland; the Earl of Ailesbury was added as a joint holder of the office in 1671, and Bolingbroke was removed from the office by James II in 1681.
[citation needed] Bolingbroke died childless on 18 March 1688 and was buried at Bletsoe.