Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet

Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599 – 24 June 1676) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1676.

Northcote was the eldest surviving son of John Northcote (1570–1632) of Hayne, Newton St Cyres, near Crediton, Devon, (whose splendid monument he erected in Newton St Cyres Church) by his second wife Susanna Pollard, daughter of Sir Hugh II Pollard of King's Nympton.

The Heraldic Visitations of Devon lists the founder of the family as Galfridus de Northcote, Miles ("knight"), living in 1103.

[2] The family later in the 16th century made its fortune as cloth merchants at Crediton[3] He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 9 May 1617, aged 16 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1618.

[5] A manuscript purporting to be the Notebook of Sir John Northcote, containing Memoranda of Proceedings during the first session of the Long Parliament, 1640 was published in 1887.

Arms of Northcote: Argent, three crosses-crosslet in bend sable [ 1 ]
Effigies of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676) and his wife Grace Halswell (died 1675). Detail from base of monument to his father John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church. On a cartouche above are shown the arms of Northcote impaling Azure, three bars wavy argent overall a bend gules (Halswell). Their sons are shown kneeling behind their father and their daughters behind their mother. the effigies of some infants of both genders lie on the floor in swaddling clothes
Grace Halswell (died 1675), wife of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676). Detail from her kneeling effigy at base of monument to her father-in-law John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church
Arms of Halswell: Azure, three bars wavy argent over all a bend gules