# John Lemon

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For the Alaska prospector, see [John Lemon (prospector)](/source/John_Lemon_(prospector)). For the British logician and philosopher, see [John Lemmon](/source/John_Lemmon). For the musician, see [John Lennon](/source/John_Lennon).

**John Lemon** (6 November 1754 – 5 April 1814) was a British [Whig](/source/Whiggism) [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)).

He was born in [Truro](/source/Truro,_Cornwall), the second son of William Lemon by his marriage to Anne, the daughter of John Willyams of [Carnanton House](/source/Carnanton_House), and was the grandson of William Lemon the Elder (1696–1760), who had acquired a substantial estate at [Carclew](/source/Carclew_House) in 1749, and the younger brother of [Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet](/source/William_Lemon).[1][2][3]

The young John Lemon was educated at [Truro Grammar School](/source/Truro_Cathedral_School)[4] and later at [Harrow](/source/Harrow_School).[5] He became a [lieutenant colonel](/source/Lieutenant_colonel) in the [Horse Guards](/source/Horse_Guards_Regiment).[6]

On 5 April 1814, he died unmarried in Polvellen, Cornwall.[6]

## Political career

In 1784 he was elected to the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) for [West Looe](/source/West_Looe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), a seat he held only briefly. He returned to the Commons as a member for [Saltash](/source/Saltash_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) between 1787 and 1790.[5] In 1796 he was able to buy from [Viscount Falmouth](/source/George_Boscawen,_3rd_Viscount_Falmouth) a life interest in one of the seats at the [pocket borough](/source/Pocket_borough) of [Truro](/source/Truro_(UK_Parliament_constituency))[7] and was duly elected for Truro that year, holding the seat until his death in 1814.[5]

On 17 January 1804 Lemon was appointed as one of the [Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty](/source/List_of_Lords_Commissioners_of_the_Admiralty), serving for only a month. According to convention, this meant he had to give up his Parliamentary seat on appointment to the Crown Office and seek re-election to his seat at a by-election in February, at which he was re-elected.

## Amateur musician and composer

Lemon was an amateur musician and composer. The *Cathedral Psalter Chants* (1874) included his Double Chant in G, while there is also a Chant in D. A Double Chant in F is in *The Parish Psalter with Chants* (1932).[6]

## References

1. 'Sir William Lemon' in *Annual Biography and Obituary* (1826), [pp. 441-442](https://books.google.com/books?id=U24EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA442)

1. Pamela Dodds, *Building Country Houses on Cornish Estates 1730–1830* (2002), [paper](http://www.marjon.ac.uk/cornish-history/conf2002dodds/index.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070322081129/http://www.marjon.ac.uk/cornish-history/conf2002dodds/index.htm) 22 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine for Cornish History Network conference

1. Hugh Pengelly Olivey, *Notes on the Parish of Mylor*, [Section IX - Monuments in Mylor Church and Churchyard](http://www.milsom.info/mylor/Olivey/Olivey_C14.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110721224422/http://www.milsom.info/mylor/Olivey/Olivey_C14.htm) 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (1907)

1. [Nicholas Carlisle](/source/Nicholas_Carlisle), *A concise description of the endowed grammar schools in England*, vol. 1 (1818), [p. 151](https://books.google.com/books?id=GwsJRFnvUIAC&pg=PA151)

1. Stanley T. Bindoff, John S. Roskell, Lewis Namier, *The House of Commons* 3, (1983), p. 34: "LEMON, John (1754–1814), of Truro, Cornw. West Looe 5 Apr.-Aug. 1784 Saltash 7 May 1787-1790 Truro 1796-5 Apr. 1814 b. 6 Nov. 1754, 2nd s. of William Lemon and bro. of William Lemon (qv). educ. Harrow 1770-1."

1. Humphreys, Maggie & Evans, Robert, 1997. *Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland*. London: Mansell. p 206

1. Roland G. Thorne, *The House of Commons 1790-1820* (History of Parliament Trust, 1986), p. 87: "Falmouth seems to have allayed any such fears by selling John Lemon a life interest in the seat in 1796, Lemon being presumably acceptable to his opponents at Truro."

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