Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet
Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet was an English landowner.
Career and family
He was the son of John Tufton and Mary Baker, a daughter of Sir John Baker. His family home was at Hothfield in Kent.He twice served as Sheriff of Kent, was knighted in 1603, and made a baronet in 1611.
His first wife was Olympia Blower, a daughter of Christopher Blower of Sileham and Bloor's Place, Rainham. Their children included:
- Anne Tufton, who married Francis Tresham, the Gunpowder Plot conspirator, in 1593
- Elizabeth Tufton
- Margaret Tufton, who married Thomas Caril of Shipley, Sussex
- Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet, later Earl of Thanet, who married Frances Cecil
- Humfrey Tufton of the Mote, Maidstone, who married Margaret Morley
- Richard Tufton, of Tothill Street, Westminster, who married Chrysogon Morley, a sister of Margaret Morley
- William Tufton, of Vinters, Boxley, and Governor of Barbados, who married Anne Cave
- Cecily Tufton, who married Sir Edward Hungerford, and, Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland. Her family at Belvoir Castle was thought to have been troubled by witchcraft.
- Anne Tufton,.