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Sir John Glynne KS (1602 – 15 November 1666) was a Welsh lawyer of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods.
The second son of Sir William Glynne of Glynllifon, Glynne was educated at Westminster and Hart Hall, Oxford. He entered Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1620 and was called to the Bar on 24 June 1628.[1]
Glynne was elected Member of Parliament for Caernarvon the same year, and for Westminster in the Long Parliament in 1640. His first major parliamentary triumph was the summing-up of the case against the Earl of Strafford, and he enjoyed a successful career during the commonwealth, becoming a serjeant-at-law, judge of assize, and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, and was a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms.[1] However, his Presbyterianism put him out of favour of with the army, and he was expelled from Parliament in 1647 and imprisoned in the Tower for almost a year. He was counsel for the University of Cambridge from 1647 to 1660.[2] He returned to Parliament for Caernarvonshire from 1654 to 1655 in the First Protectorate Parliament.[1] He was nominated and accepted a seat in Cromwell's Other House.[3]
In the later years of the Protectorate, Glynne resigned his legal offices and turned to favour the Restoration. He was returned again for Caernarvonshire in the Convention Parliament, and was knighted on 16 November 1660, and shortly thereafter made Prime Serjeant. He died at his home in London on 15 November 1666, leaving his estates, including Hawarden in Flintshire (which he had bought in 1654) to his son Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet.[1]
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- Glynne, Sir John in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-GLYN-PEN-1603.html. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- Noble, Mark (1787). Memoirs of the protectorate-house of Cromwell, ..., Volume I, pp. 390–92
| Parliament of England | ||
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| Preceded by Unknown | Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire 1660–1661 | Succeeded by Sir Richard Wynn |
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| Preceded by Henry Rolle | Lord Chief Justice 1655–1660 | Succeeded by Sir Richard Newdigate |
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Sir John Glynne (1602-66), second son of Sir William Glynne of Glynllifon, who succeeded his brother Thomas to the Glynllifon estate, purchased the castle and manor of Hawarden, together with the estate in 1654. Like his brother he was a parliamentarian during the Civil War. He became recorder of London and afterwards Lord Chief Justice.
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Warrington adds: Glynne did Charles II great service and was in consequence knighted and appointed King’s Serjeant, and his son created a baronet.