page_title: Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: A View of the Marquis of Caernarvon's Seat at Southgate from A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom&#160;: adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved by Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778 Publication date 1776
context_page_description: Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet, of Forty Hall, Enfield, and Denmark Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1709.
context_section_description: Wolstenholme was baptized on 19 October 1649, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wolstenholme, 2nd Baronet, of Minchendon, Edmonton, Middlesex, and his wife Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Phineas Andrews of St Olave's, Hart Street, London. The Wolstenholme family acquired wealth and social position in Middlesex through service in the customs office. The second baronet built Minchington Hall in Southgate, Middlesex, after 1664. Wolstenholme was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1665, and at Inner Temple in 1668.  He married on  27 May 1675, aged 25, Mary Raynton  daughter of Nicholas Raynton, MP, of Forty Hall, Enfield, when he  had £2,000 pa in lands settled on him by his father. However his father was in very straitened financial circumstances and in 1690, Wolstenholme had to petition Parliament for a bill to allow him to sell property to pay his father's debts. A year later, in November 1691, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and to the encumbered property.  His wife died in 1691
caption: Minchington Hall as it appeared around 1776 in Robert Goadby's A New Display of the Beauties of England (1776).[1]
exif: {"Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "160", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5044"}