Sir John Ayloffe (DoB 1612)

John was the son of Henry Ayloffe (captain of a Troop of Horse), and Dorothy, daughter and heir of Richard Bulkeley, of Cheadle, in Cheshire. Henry was the third son of Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet and his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe of Barking. Sir Benjamin was High Sheriff of Essex and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Consequently he was imprisoned by Parliament, his estates being sequestrated. After the restoration he was a member of Parliament (M.P.) for Essex from 1661 until his death.
Henry’s two elder brothers inherited the baronetcy but both died childless so on the death of Sir Benjamin his uncle, the John inherited the title.
He was educated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge; obtaining his degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA), in 1691; and Master of.Arts (MA), in 1695. He took Holy Orders, and was Rector of Dengie, Essex, from1700 – 1708, and Rector of Stanford Rivers, for thirty-three years, from 1707 until 1730.
He succeeded to the title of 5th Baronet Ayloffe, of Braxted Magna, on the 5th March 1722. He never married and died at Stanford Rivers on the 10th December 1730. He was buried at Braxted, Essex.
He was succeeded to the title by his cousin, Joseph Ayloffe, FRS, (1708 -1781), an English antiquary and the sixth and last baronet.