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Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet (1 November 1618 – 23 June 1693) was an English parliamentarian colonel and squire of Rothamsted Manor. ==Life== The Wittewrongs were a Flemish Protestant family who in 1564 left Ghent in the Spanish Netherlands for London.〔http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/resources/rmlmanor/history.html〕 Jacques Wittewrong came to London with his wife and two children. Most of the Wittewrong family followed Jacques, who made a career as a public notary,〔http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2007/ans7-031-wittewronge.htm〕 and died in 1593. John Wittewrong was a grandson of Jacques, and son of Jacob Wittewrong(le) (1558–1622)〔http://gallery.e2bn.org/image651461-migration.html〕 by his second wife Anna, daughter of Garrard Vanaker of Antwerp, a merchant. Jacob was a wealthy brewer.〔Liên Luu, ''Immigrants and the industries of London, 1500-1700'' (2005), p. 285.〕 On Jacob's death, Anna married Thomas Myddelton, as his fourth wife, and survived him. Through his stepfather John gained a Welsh connection, and he was later High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire for 1665 though the manor of Talerddig.〔Powys-Land Club, ''Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire and its borders'', pp. 343-4.〕 He was knighted in 1640, and then fought on the side of Parliament in the English Civil War as a colonel. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1658.〔James Sanders, ''History of the Siderfin family of West Somerset'' (1912), p. 23.〕 In religion he was an Independent, at one time a member of the congregation of William Bridge, and later supported ministers of nonconforming views.,〔John Trevor Cliffe, ''The Puritan gentry besieged, 1650-1700'' (1993), pp. 48-9.〕 He bought land at Wheathampstead in 1649.〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43282〕 He was created baronet in 1662, and in 1667 bought Stantonbury from Sir John Temple, where he built a mansion of which only a few traces are left.〔http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Stantonbury/Index.html〕〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62615〕 He also owned Rothamsted Manor;〔 the family had leased it from 1611, and purchased it in 1623, after which Sir John made many alterations.〔http://www.theaa.com/walks/in-rothamsted-park-420615〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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