Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet
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in 1625 and 1626.
Monson was born in the parish, of St Sepulchre's, London, the son of Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet of South Carlton, Lincolnshire and his wife Margaret Anderson, the daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson. He studied Law. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament
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for Lincoln
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. He was elected MP for Lincolnshire
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in 1626. He was knighted in the Order of the Bath
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at the coronation of King Charles I on 2 February 1627.
In May 1641 he succeeded to the baronetcy
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on the death of his father. When the Civil War broke out, he retired to Oxford where was awarded D.C.L.from the University on 1 November 1642. In 1645, acquired the estate of Broxbourne through his wife's inheritance and subsequently resided there. He was concerned in the surrender of the Royalist garrison at Oxford to the Parliamentary army in 1646.
Monson died at the age of 84 and was buried at South Carlton on 29 December 1683. His widow was buried there on 10 December 1692.
Monson married in about 1625 Ursula Oxenbridge, daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Sir Henry Coke of Broxbourne.