John Port (died 1557)

Sir John Port
Born	before 1510
Died	6 June 1557
Education	Brasenose College
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Giffard Dorothy Fitzherbert
Children	Walter Port Thomas Port Elizabeth Port Dorothy Port Margaret Port
Parent(s)	Sir John Port, Jane Fitzherbert

Sir John Port (before 1510 – 6 June 1557) was an English Knight of the Bath and politician. He founded Repton School, an almshouse at Etwall and also has a secondary school named after him.

The family of Port was based in Chester.

John Port was the only son of Sir John Port (d.1540) by Jane Fitzherbert (died c.1520), widow of John Pole of Radbourne, and daughter and heiress of John Fitzherbert (d.1502) of Etwall, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer. His great-grandfather, Henry Port, was described as a merchant. A mercer, also named Henry Port (d.1512), was his grandfather; a monument to the latter in St Helen's Church, Etwall records that he died in 1512, having had seventeen children by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Banowayte of Flowresbrook.

Port had three sisters: Ellen, who married firstly Sir Edmund Pierrepont of Holme, Nottinghamshire and secondly Sir John Babington; Barbara, who married Sir John Francys of Foremark; and Maria, who was the wife of Sir George Findern of Findern.

Port was the first lecturer or scholar at his father's foundation at Brasenose College. He was elected Knight of the Shire (MP) for Derbyshire in 1539. He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI in 1547 and was a member of Queen Mary's first parliament, representing Derbyshire in 1553. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1554. In 1556 he was involved in the execution of Joan Waste, a 22-year-old blind Protestant.

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