Sir John Austen, 2nd Baronet (c. 1640 – 1699) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1667 and 1699.
Austen was the son of Sir Robert Austen, 1st Baronet of Hall Place, Bexley and his wife Anne Muns, daughter of Thomas Muns, of Otteridge in Bersted, Kent, and of London.
He had acquired the estate of Stagenhoe, Hertfordshire though his marriage as well as inheriting Hall Place, Bexley.
[2][3] Austen died in Red Lion Square, London at the age of about 58.
[1] Austen married by licence dated 6 December 1661, Rose Hale, daughter of Sir John Hale, of Stagenhoe and his wife Elizabeth Bale, daughter of Edmond Bale, of Saddington, Leicestershire.