Baron St. John of Bletso
Baron Saint John of Bletso , of Bletso in the County of Bedford , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .
Awarding and other titles
On January 13, 1559, the title was created by Letters patent for Oliver St. John .
The 4th Baron was also elevated to Earl of Bolingbroke on December 28, 1624 . His son was appointed to the House of Lords on May 14, 1641 by Writ of Acceleration and thus followed ahead of schedule as the 5th Baron St. John of Bletso. When he died in the Battle of Edgehill in 1642 and died before his father, the title of baron reverted to his father. When he died in 1646, his grandson, a son of the younger brother of the 5th Baron, inherited the Earldom and the Barony when the latter was childless in 1688. With the childless death of the 3rd Earl in 1711, the Earl title expired and the title of baron passed to his second uncle, Sir Paulet St. John, 5th Baronet . This inherited the title in 1711Baronet , of Northwood in the County of Northampton , who was created in the Baronetage of England in 1660 for Oliver St. John († 1662), the fourth son of the 3rd Baron. The baronetcy has since been a subordinate title of the baron.
Today Anthony St. John holds the title as 22nd Baron.
List of Barons St. John of Bletso (1559)
- Oliver St. John, 1st Baron St. John of Bletso († 1582)
- John St. John, 2nd Baron St. John of Bletso († 1596)
- Oliver St. John, 3rd Baron St. John of Bletso (around 1540-1618)
- Oliver St. John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke , 4th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1646)
- Oliver St. John, 5th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1642) (followed in 1641 by Writ of Acceleration )
- Oliver St. John, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke , 6th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1688)
- Paulet St. John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke , 7th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1711)
- Paulet St. John, 8th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1714)
- William St. John, 9th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1720)
- Rowland St. John, 10th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1722)
- John St. John, 11th Baron St. John of Bletso († 1757)
- John St. John, 12th Baron St. John of Bletso (1725–1767)
- Henry St. John, 13th Baron St. John of Bletso (1758–1805)
- St. Andrew St. John, 14th Baron St. John of Bletso (1759–1817)
- St. Andrew St. John, 15th Baron St. John of Bletso (1811–1874)
- St. Andrew St. John, 16th Baron St. John of Bletso (1840–1887)
- Beauchamp St. John, 17th Baron St. John of Bletso (1844–1912)
- Henry St. John, 18th Baron St. John of Bletso (1876–1920)
- Moubray St. John, 19th Baron St. John of Bletso (1877–1934)
- John St. John, 20th Baron St. John of Bletso (1917–1976)
- Andrew St. John, 21st Baron St. John of Bletso (1918–1978)
- Anthony St. John, 22nd Baron St. John of Bletso (born 1957)
Title heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current title holder Oliver St. John (* 1995).
See also
- Baron St. John de Basing (1299)
- Baron St. John de Lageham (1299)
- Baron St. John (of Basing) (1539)
- Baron St. John of Lydiard Tregoze (1712)
- Baron St. John of Battersea (1716)
- Baron St. John of Fawsley (Life Peerage, 1987)
Web links
- St John of Bletso, Baron (E, 1558/9) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Bolingbroke, Earl of (E, 1624-1711) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Peerage: St. John of Bletso at Leigh Rayment's Peerage ( Memento from October 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )