Matthew Boynton

Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet (c. 1591 – 12 March 1647) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1621 and 1647.

Boynton was the eldest son of Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, who was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1596, and his wife Dorothy Place, daughter of Sir Christopher Place, of Halnaby, Yorkshire.

[1] Boynton died at Bainton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and was buried on 12 March 1647, in the chancel of St. Andrew's, Holborn.

His first marriage was to Frances Griffith, daughter of Sir Henry Griffith of Burton Agnes, by whom he had at least five children: She died in July 1634 and he married secondly to Katherine Stapleton, widow of Robert Stapleton, of Wighill, Yorkshire and daughter of The Viscount Fairfax of Emley.

She subsequently remarried to Sir Arthur Ingram, who died 4 July 1655 and then William Wiokham.