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Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet, PC (c.1672–1733) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the
English and then
British House of Commons from 1701 to 1733.
Life
Radley Hall, now part of
Radley College, built in the 1720s for Sir John Stonhouse
Stonhouse was the eldest son of
Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet of Radley and his wife Martha Brigges daughter of Robert Brigges, merchant, of St Paul’s Churchyard, London, and widow of Richard Spencer, Vintner, of Berry Street, Aldgate, London.[1] He matriculated at
The Queen's College, Oxford on 12 April 1690, aged 17 and was admitted at the
Inner Temple in 1690. He succeeded his father to the
baronetcy in 1700.
Stonhouse was returned as
Member of Parliament for
Berkshire in December 1701. He held the seat for the rest of his life, as a Tory.[2]
From 1721, Stonhouse had
Radley Hall built.[3] The work was carried out by the Oxford masons Bartholomew Peisley III and
William Townesend, to 1725.[4][5]
Radley Hall descended to a granddaughter of the 3rd Baronet, Penelope, Lady Rivers. She was the daughter of Penelope, by her first husband,
Sir Henry Atkins, 4th Baronet of Clapham; she married
George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers. Sir James Stonhouse died unmarried in 1792, leaving the Hall to Lady Rivers. Under the terms of the will, when she died in 1795, it passed to Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet.[10][11]