Sir Roger Appleton, 1st Baronet

Sir Roger Appleton, 1st Baronet (died 16 January 1614) was an English landowner and baronet.

Appleton was the son of Henry Appleton of South Benfleet, Suffolk and Faith Cardinal.[1] He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge.[2] He inherited his father's estates, including Jarvis Hall, in 1607.[3] He was knighted by James I upon becoming High Sheriff of Essex in 1608. On 29 June 1611 he was made a Baronet, of South Bernfleet in the County of Suffolk, during the second round of creations by James I.[4]

He married Anne, the daughter of Sir Thomas Mildmay, with whom he had two daughters and a son:[5]

References

  1. Memorial of Samuel Appleton of Ipswich, Massachusetts (1801), p.53.
  2. "Apleton, Roger (APLN583R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1841), p.13.
  4. J.B. Nichols, The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First (1828), p.428.
  5. John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1841), p.13.
Political offices
Preceded by
Sir Henry Maxey
High Sheriff of Essex
1608
Succeeded by
Unknown
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
(of South Benfleet)
16111614
Succeeded by
Sir Henry Appleton
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