He does not appear to have stood in 1661 and was commissioner for assessment for Middlesex from 1661.
(meta data) TITLE: MAYNARD, John II (1638-62), of the Middle Temple. | History of Parliament Online # History of Parliament Online Home Research > Members > 1660-1690 > MAYNARD, John II (1638-62) ## Go To Section 1386-1421 1422-1504 1509-1558 1558-1603 1604-1629 1640-1660 1660-1690 1690-1715 1715-1754 1754-1790 1790-1820 1820-1832 ## INDEX # MAYNARD, John II (1638-62), of the Middle Temple. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983Available from Boydell and Brewer ## Biography Detail Family & Education Offices Held End Notes ## Related Resources 1660-1690 Members 1660-1690 Constituencies 1660-1690 Parliaments 1660-1690 Surveys ### Constituency ### Dates BERE ALSTON1660 ### Family and Education bap. 15 Aug. 1638, 2nd s. of John Maynard I by 1st w., and bro. of Joseph Maynard. educ. M. Temple, entered 1649, called 1659. unm.1 ### Offices Held Commr. for assessment, Mdx. 1661-d. ### Biography Maynard's elder brother died in infancy. He was himself described as of good intellectual parts and prodigious physical strength, able to tear a horseshoe in half. A lawyer like his father, he was named in both returns for the family borough of Bere Alston and presumably took his seat at once. Lord Wharton listed him as a friend, but the only evidence of his attendance at the House is his appointment with his father to the committee to restore the title of the Duke of Norfolk on 29 Nov. He is not known to have stood in 1661, and died in his chambers in the Middle Temple on 28 May 1662.2 ### Ref Volumes: 1660-1690 ### Authors: M. W. Helms / J. S. Crossette ### Notes 1. Devon RO, Tavistock par. reg., ex inf. Dr M. de L. Landon. 2. Plymouth City Lib. J. Prince, Devon Worthies; Cal. I. Temple Recs. iii. 444. ## Go To Section 1386-1421 1422-1504 1509-1558 1558-1603 1604-1629 1640-1660 1660-1690 1690-1715 1715-1754 1754-1790 1790-1820 1820-1832 ## INDEX
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John Maynard (died 1662)
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John Maynard (1638 – 28 May 1662) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. 
 Maynard was the son of John Maynard and his first wife Elizabeth Henley daughter of Andrew Henley of Taunton, Somerset and was baptised on 15 August 1638. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1649 and was called to the bar in 1659. He was described as "of good intellectual parts" and strong enough to tear a horseshoe in half. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bere Alston in the Convention Parliament.