Sir John Bourne (by 1518 – May 1575), of Worcestershire, was an English politician and privy councillor to Queen Mary I.
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Family
Bourne's family were minor gentry from Worcestershire; he was probably the son of Walter Bourne of Wick, Worcestershire. He was more distantly related Gilbert Bourne, bishop of Bath and Wales than has often been thought.
Career
He was educated at Lincoln's Inn. By 1539 he was one of the gentlemen in the household of William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton. He may have sat as Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Guildford in 1539; he was certainly one of the men nominated by the earl, but the return is missing.
He was elected for Midhurst in 1542 through the earl's patronage. He also became a clerk of the privy seal under Southampton. In 1545 he was elected for Preston, a Duchy of Lancaster borough, presumably through the influence of Sir John Gage.
He leased the manor of Battenhall, Worcester from the prior of Worcester Cathedral. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor was excluded from the grant of lands to the dean and chapter and granted to Bourne. In 1545 he became a justice of the peace in Worcestershire.