John Doddington

John Doddington was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. Early life Doddington was the fourth son of the former Mary Herbert and Sir William Doddington (1572–1638) of Breamore, an MP who served as High Sheriff of Hampshire. When his parents married, his mother brought the manor of Candleston Castle. His father settled the manor of South Charford on his brother Herbert Doddington when he married Elizabeth Colles in 1629. His sister Katherine Doddington married Peregrine Hoby, MP for Great Marlow, and his sister Ann Doddington married John Bulkeley, MP for Yarmouth, Newtown, Hampshire, Christchurch, Hampshire and Lymington. In 1629, his brother Henry Doddington was hanged in London for murdering their mother.