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About Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Godstone
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet was an English landowner in Surrey. Created a baronet at the English Restoration, he inherited the Godstone estate in 1664. He quarreled extensively with his family to obtain more money and impaired the estate with debts from a profligate lifestyle. The baronetcy became extinct upon his death and his entailed estates passed to his brother George.
Everything about Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Godstone →- Position held
- High Sheriff of Surrey
- Born
- March 12, 1633, March 12, 1632
- Died
- August 10, 1671