John Glynne (judge)

Sir John Glynne, KS (1602 – 15 November 1666), was a Welsh lawyer of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods.

The second son of Sir William Glynne of Glynllifon, Glynne was educated at Westminster and Hart Hall, Oxford. He entered Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1620 and was called to the Bar on 24 June 1628.

Glynne was elected Member of Parliament for Caernarvon the same year, and for Westminster in the Long Parliament in 1640. His first major parliamentary triumph was the summing-up of the case against the Earl of Strafford, and he enjoyed a successful career during the commonwealth, becoming a serjeant-at-law, judge of assize, and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, and was a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms. However, his Presbyterianism put him out of favor of with the army, and he was expelled from Parliament in 1647 and imprisoned in the Tower for almost a year. He returned to Parliament for Caernarvonshire from 1654 to 1655 in the First Protectorate Parliament.

In the later years of the Protectorate, Glynne resigned his legal offices and turned to favour the Restoration. He was returned again for Caernarvonshire in the Convention Parliament, and was knighted on 16 November 1660, and shortly thereafter made Prime Serjeant. He died at his home in London on 15 November 1666, leaving his estates, including Hawarden in Flintshire (which he had bought in 1654) to his son Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet.

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*cite book | first=Dr. David | last=Jenkins | chapter=Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints. | title=Dictionary of Welsh Biography | chapterurl=http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-GLYN-PEN-1603.html | accessdate=2007-08-13