John Strode (c. 1561 – 1642)

Sir John Strode
Portrait of Sir John Strode 17th century, after Anthony van Dyck
Born	c. 1561 Parnham, Dorset
Died	before (1642-07-15)15 July 1642 (aged 81) Middle Temple, London
Occupations	Lawyer Politician
Years active	1590–1642
Spouses	Anne Chaldecote ​ ​ (m. 1590; died 1621)​ Ann Wyndham ​ (m. 1622)​
Children	Sir John Strode George Strode Hugh Strode Thomas Strode
Parents	John Strode Katherine Cromwell

Arms of Strode of Parnham in Dorset: Ermine, on a canton sable a crescent argent.

Sir John Strode (c. 1561 – before 15 July 1642), of the Middle Temple, London and Chantmarle, Cattistock, Dorset, was an English MP for Bridport in 1621 and 1625.

Early life

Born about 1561, Strode was the third son of John Strode of Parnham, Dorset and his first wife, Katherine, daughter of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour.

Strode was educated at New Inn, then Middle Temple, 1583. He was called to the bar in 1590.

Career

Strode, a lawyer by profession, who gained a reputation as "an honest, trusty, learned, religious gentleman", served as a Justice of the Peace for Dorset by 1593–1642, commissioner sewers 1617, martial law 1626, knighthood compositions 1631, piracy 1631.

He was Autumn reader, Middle Temple in 1611, bencher from 1611 to 1642, treasurer from 1619 to 1620; recorder, Bridport, Dorset from 1618 to 1640. He was knighted at Theobalds 1 December 1623.

He died, aged 81, at the Middle Temple before 15 July in 1642. His widow was murdered defending Parnham House, near Beaminster in Dorset, in 1645 by a soldier under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax during the Civil War.

Marriages and issue

Strode married twice. He married firstly, Anne (d. 8 Aug. 1621), daughter of William Chaldecote of Quarleston, Dorset, and widow of Robert Bingham (d. 1587) of Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset, by whom he had no children.

Four months after his first wife's death, and two days after Margery Wyndham married Hugh Trevilian on 7 January 1622 at St Decumans (Watchet), Somerset, Strode married secondly on 9 January 1622 at St Decumans (Watchet), Somerset to Anne (d. 1645), daughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, by whom he had four sons and two daughters, including:

• Sir John Strode (1624–1679)
• Sir George Strode, baptised at Cattistock on 28 November 1626. He died at the age of 75, on 24 October 1701, and was buried at Trinity Chapel, Lewston.
• Hugh Strode
• Thomas Strode

References

• Aspinall-Oglander, Cecil (1945). Nunwell Symphony. London, UK: Hogarth Press. OCLC 2172867.
• Ferris, John P. (1983). "Strode, John I (1624-79), of Parnham, Dorset". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690. Archived from the original on 22 January 2025 – via History of Parliament Online.
• Ferris, John P. (2010). "Strode, John (c.1561-1642), of the Middle Temple, London and Chantmarle, Cattistock, Dorset". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. Archived from the original on 26 March 2025 – via History of Parliament Online.
• Fragmenta Genealogica. Vol. VIII. 1902. pp. 127–131. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
• Harvey, William (1887). Metcalfe, Walter C. (ed.). The Visitation of Dorsetshire, by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms. Exeter: William Pollard & Co.
• Miller, Alan J. (November 2007). "Murder Most Foul". Dorset Life – The Dorset Magazine. dorsetlife.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 January 2026. Retrieved 5 August 2020.

External links

• Ferris, John P. (2010). "Strode, John (c.1561-1642), of the Middle Temple, London and Chantmarle, Cattistock, Dorset". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. Archived from the original on 26 March 2025 – via History of Parliament Online.