Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet (4 August 1716 – 6 December 1793), was an English country gentleman.

[1] The son of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet, by his third wife, Mary King, he was the half-brother of the infamous Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet.

His principal interests lay in his lands in Wales and Lincolnshire which he had inherited from his maternal uncles.

From 1753 until 1761, he served as Member of Parliament for the pocket borough of Bishop's Castle, controlled by his brother-in-law John Walcott.

In 1761, he married Sarah Moore (d. 9 April 1777), by whom he had eight children, of whom four survived him: Sir John died on 6 December 1793 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest surviving son, John.