Name John Mallory | ||
Sir John Mallory of Studley Royal (1555–1619), was an English politician who was knighted in 1603. He was the son of Sir William Mallory of Hutton Conyers, who was the first in the family to become an MP, shortly after the Tudor monarchs began to modernise the parliamentary system.
He and his family were regarded with suspicion by the Protestant monarchy due to their relation to Cardinal William Allen, who assisted in the planning of the Spanish Armada. His son, Christopher, was a religions recusant who fled to the Spanish-ruled Netherlands in exile shortly after the gunpowder plot in November 1605. John then attended the key conference with the Lords about reform of the recusancy laws (3 Feb. 1606).
He was also the father of MP William Mallory.