{{Short description|Irish soldier and politician (1661–1707)}} {{for|the Anglican priest in Ireland|John Caulfeild (priest)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} Colonel '''John Caulfeild''' (1661–1707),<ref name = Rayment/> styled '''The Honourable''' from birth, was an Irish soldier and politician.
He was the fourth son of the 1st Viscount Charlemont and his wife Hon. Sarah Moore, second daughter of Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore of Drogheda.<ref>{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire | publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | location = London | volume = I | edition = 4th | year = 1832 | pages = 230 }}</ref> Caulfield was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was appointed Burgess of Charlemont in 1697.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p21463.htm#i214629| title= ThePeerage - Lt-Col John Caulfeild| accessdate= 27 February 2007}}</ref> From 1703 to 1707, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Charlemont.<ref name = Rayment>{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | title = Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 | accessdate = 18 April 2009 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | archive-date = 1 June 2009 }}</ref>
Caulfeild was married to Sydney Somerville, daughter of James Somerville.<ref name = Lodge/> They had a son and a daughter.<ref name = Lodge>{{cite book | last = Lodge | first = John | editor = Mervyn Archdall | title = The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom | volume = III | location = Dublin | publisher = James Moore | year = 1789 | pages = 150 }}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|ie}} {{s-bef| before = Stephen Ludlow <br/> Edward Riley }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Charlemont | with = Hon. James Caulfield 1703–1705 | with2 = John Davys 1705–1707 | years = 1703–1707 }} {{s-aft| after = John Davys <br/> George Dodington }} {{s-end}}
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