{{Short description|Lord Mayor of London in 1658}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Sir John Ireton''' (1615 – 1689) was Lord Mayor of London in 1658 and brother of General Henry Ireton.{{sfn|Lee|1903|p=88}}

==Biography== John Ireton was knighted by Oliver Cromwell, and purchased the estate of Radcliffe-on-Soar, in Nottinghamshire from Colonel Hutchinson.{{sfn|Brown|1896}} In 1652 he was appointed a Sheriff of London and in 1658 elected Lord Mayor of London.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46797| title = Mayors and Sheriffs of London| publisher= British History Online|access-date = 2011-06-23}}</ref>

In 1660 at the Restoration, he was excluded from the Act of Indemnity, and for a time imprisoned in the Tower of London.{{sfn|Firth|1892|p=42}} An allusion to which circumstance is made by Pepys in his "Diary," under the date 1 December 1661.<ref>{{harvnb|Brown|1896}}: See [http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/12/01/ Pepys, Diary, 1 December 1661]</ref> According to a letter in the State Papers, in 1662 he was removed to the Scilly Islands; but if this were so, he was shortly after liberated, for in a list of thirteen "fanatics" at East Sheen, in 1664, where "conventicles were innumerable," is the name of "John Ireton, Formerly Lord Mayor."{{sfn|Brown|1896}} in 1685 he was again imprisoned for seditious practices,<ref>{{harvnb|Firth|1892|p=42}} cites: Noble, i, 445; Cat. State Papers, Dom. 1661-2, p. 460</ref> and, dying in 1689, was buried in London at the church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less.{{sfn|Brown|1896}}

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==References== *{{cite DNB|last=Firth|first=C.H. |authorlink=Charles Harding Firth |wstitle=Ireton, Henry |volume=29 |page=42}} (see paragraph at the end of the main article) *{{Cite DNBIE|title=Ireton, John |page=42}}

'''Attribution''' *{{source-attribution|{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Cornelius |year=1896 |title=A history of Nottinghamshire |chapter-url=http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/attenborough.htm |chapter=Attenborough, Kingston-on-Soar, and Bradmore |website=www.nottshistory.org.uk}} }}

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