Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet (1689 – 6 September 1759) of Normanton Park, Rutland was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1715 and 1741.
Heathcote was the eldest surviving son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London, and his wife Hester Rayner, daughter of Christopher Rayner.
He married Bridget White, daughter of Thomas White, on 5 August 1720.
Heathcote was elected as a Whig Member of Parliament for Grantham in a contest at the 1715 British general election.
He did not stand in 1722.
He was a Director of the East India Company from 1716 to 1724 and a Director of the Bank of England at statutory intervals between 1725 and 1735.
From 1728 to 1731, he served again as a Director of the East India Company.
He succeeded to the baronetcy and Normanton Park on the death of his father on 25 January 1733.
Heathcote was returned unopposed as MP for Bodmin at a by-election on 9 February 1733 and subsequently at the 1734 British general election.
He voted with the Administration in every recorded division, except for the place bill in 1740.
Between 1735 and 1740, he rebuilt Normanton Hall to the design of Henry Joynes.
He was defeated at the 1741 British general election and then lived the life of a country gentleman, spending seven months of the year at Normanton.
An attempt to obtain a parliamentary seat at Rutland in 1754 came to nothing.
He was a trustee of the British Museum and president of the Foundling Hospital.
Heathcote died on 5 September 1759, aged 70 and was succeeded by his eldest son Gilbert Heathcote.
His wife Bridget died on 5 May 1772.
They had two sons and four daughters, of whom were:
John Heathcote (1767–1838)
John Heathcote( 14 November 1767 – 3 May 1838) was a British politician, MP for Gatton from 1796 to 1798, and for Ripon from 1798 to 1806.
He was the son of John Heathcote( died 1795) and Lydia Moyer, and the grandson of Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet( 1689 – 1759), MP for Grantham and Bodmin.
He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.
He was MP for Gatton from 1796 to 1798, and for Ripon from 1798 to 1806 and appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1809 – 10.
He married on 5 November 1799 Mary Anne Thornhill( d. 27 July 1854), the daughter of George Thornhill.
They lived at Conington Castle, Huntingdonshire, and had five children: John Heathcote died on 3 May 1838 in St George's Hanover Square London and was buried on 12 May 1838 at All Saints church Conington Huntingdonshire.
His grave is located at the east end of Conington parish churchyard which is inscribed:
" In memory of John Heathcote died 1838 John Moyer Heathcote died 1891 and other members of the family."
There is a wall tablet in the south transept of Conington church with the inscription:" Near this place are deposited the remains of John Heathcote Esq.
After a residence of 38 years at Conington Castle he died May 1838 deeply and justly lamented by his relatives, his neighbours and his friends.
His son John Moyer Heathcote has caused this stone to be erected as a token of appreciation, gratitude and esteem."
Mary Ann Heathcote died on 27 July 1854 in St George's Hanover Square London and was buried on 2 August 1854 at All Saints church Conington Huntingdonshire.
Another wall tablet in the south transept of Conington church is inscribed:" In memory of Mary Anne Heathcote relict of John Heathcote Esq.
She died July 1854 aged 72 years.
This tablet is erected by her son John Moyer Heathcote as a tribute of affection and esteem.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour Jesus Christ."
Sir John Nicolson, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Nicolson, 2nd Baronet, of Lasswade was a member of the Parliament of Scotland.
Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland
Gilbert John Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland( 16 January 1795 – 6 September 1867), known as Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 5th Baronet from 1851 to 1856, of Stocken Hall, Rutland, was a British peer and Whig politician.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (2 January 1652 – 25 January 1733) was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1733.
He was a Governor of the Bank of England and was Lord Mayor of London in 1711.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet( died 2 November 1785) of Normanton Park, Rutland was a British Member of Parliament.
Heathcote was the son of Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet, and Bridget, daughter of Thomas White and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.
He succeeded to the baronetcy and to Normanton Park on his father's death in 1759.
In 1761, he was elected to the House of Commons for Shaftesbury, a seat he held until 1768.
Heathcote married firstly Lady Margaret, daughter of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, in 1749.
After his first wife's death in 1769, he married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Hudson, in 1770.
He died in November 1785 and was succeeded by his son from his second marriage, Gilbert.
John Heathcote (died 1795)
John Heathcote FRS(" c." 1727 – 29 July 1795) was a British Member of Parliament.
He was born the second son of Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet, of Normanton, Rutland, from whom he inherited estates at Steeple Gidding and Conington, Huntingdonshire in 1759.
He studied law at Lincoln's Inn( 1744).
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 May 1768.
He served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1767 – 68 and was the MP for Rutland from 29 June 1790 until his death.
He married Lydia Moyer( d. 14 August 1822) on 27 October 1764, they had two children: John Heathcote is buried in Chingford Essex.
Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet
Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet,( c. 1649 – March 1688) of Westwood House near Droitwich, Worcestershire was the only surviving son of Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet.
Like most of his family he was a Tory and served as Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in James II's Parliament.
He spent a quiet life at Westwood, studying under the guidance of George Hickes, dean of Worcester, under whose tuition he became one of the finest Anglo- Saxon scholars of his time.
He died in March 1688.
He had married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Keyt, 1st Baronet of Ebrington, Gloucestershire.
and was succeeded by his only son, Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet.
Gilbert Heathcote (priest)
The Ven Gilbert Heathcote, MA( 1775 – 1829) was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1814 until his death.
A younger son of Sir Thomas Heathcote, 2nd Baronet( of Hursley) he was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
He held livings at Hursley and Andover; and was appointed Treasurer of Wells in 1814.
He died on 19 October 1929.
Two of his sons, Gilbert Wall Heathcote and William Beadon Heathcote, became Anglican clergymen.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.

Question: When was Sir John Heathcote, 2Nd Baronet's father born?
Answer: 2 January 1652