Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston of Ketton (1683 engraving after a portrait)[1]
Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston (1588 – 25 July 1653) of Kedington, alias Ketton, Suffolk was an English (East Anglian) landowner, magistrate and senior representative of a long-established knightly family,[2][3] one of the wealthiest in Suffolk, who sat in the House of Commons for Sudbury twice and for the Shire three times between 1625 and 1648.[4]
Of Parliamentarian sympathies, he was considered an exceptional example (for one of his class, or of any class) of Christian piety in personal character and in the management of his household and of the parishes under his patronage, as much as in his rectitude and even-handedness in his public service, and in his loyalty to his nation despite his opposition to the policies of King Charles I.
John Burke remarked that he was "esteemed the greatest ornament of his family", and cited Samuel Fairclough, who called him "one of the most eminent patriots of his time, and the twenty-third knight of his family".[5][6] J.P. Ferris observed, "As a strong parliamentarian and a Presbyterian elder he was the dominant figure in Civil War Suffolk".
^See a high resolution form of this image in British Museum Print collections, ref. P 1867,0112.41 (British Museum).
^Lee, Sidney (1885). "Barnardiston, Nathaniel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 03. pp. 242–244.
^R.L. Greaves, 'Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel (1588–1653)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP 2004).
^J.P. Ferris, 'Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel (c.1588-1653), of Kedington, Suff.', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 (from Cambridge University Press, 2010), History of Parliament Online.
^'Barnardiston of Ketton', in J. Burke and J.B. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (Scott, Webster and Geary, London 1836), pp. 39-41 (Google). (Misprints "Peter" for "Stephen" Soame.)
^R. Almack, 'Kedington alias Ketton and the Barnardiston family', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, IV Part 4 (1870), pp. 123-82 (Society's pdf).
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