George Simeon

For the French detective writer, see Georges Simenon.

Sir George Simeon was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.

Simeon was the son of John Simeon of Brightwell Baldwin, Minigrove, Britwell Priory, Chilworth, and Stoke Talmage Oxfordshire and his wife Anne Molyns, daughter of Anthony Molyns.[1] In 1611 he sold "The Howe" to his brother, later Sir John Simeon.[2] In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wallingford. He was re-elected MP for Wallingford in 1621 and in 1624.[3]

Simeon married Mary Vaux, daughter of the Hon. George Vaux, eldest son of William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, and had two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth who married to Edmund Butler, 4th Viscount Mountgarret. Simeon married secondly, Margaret Molyneux, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet of Sefton, Lancashire and was succeeded by the youngest and only surviving son of five.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
  2. ↑ 'Parishes: Watlington', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton hundreds (1964), pp. 210-252. Date accessed: 25 November 2011
  3. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir William Dunch
Griffith Payne		 Member of Parliament for Wallingford
1614-1624
With: Sir Carey Reynolds 1614
Samuel Dunch 1621-1622
Sir Edward Howard 1624
Sir Anthony Forrest 1624		 Succeeded by
Sir Anthony Forrest
Michael Molyns
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