John Rodney (MP)


Sir John Rodney was an English politician.
He was born the son of Sir Thomas Rodney of Backwell, Somerset and knighted by March 1373.
He was elected a Member of the Parliament of England for Somerset in 1391 and appointed High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for 1387–1388 and 1396–1397.
He married twice: firstly Katherine, probably the daughter of Robert Cheddar of Bristol, with whom he had four sons and a daughter and secondly Alice, the widow of John Fitzroger, Sir Edmund Clevedon and Sir Ralph Carminowe.