Person Aland; John Fortescue (1670 - 1746); 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan Aland John Fortescue Fortescue Fortescue-Aland 1670 - 1746 British Male 07 March 1670 1670 19 December 1746 1746 Burial: Stapleford Abbots, Essex

Quality Court, Chancery Lane, Holborn

Barrister Education: Inner Temple; Oxford; DCL (by diploma 1733) Career: Called to the Bar (1712); KC (1714); Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales (1714); Solicitor-General to the King (1715); MP for Midhurst (1715-1717); Reader to the Inner Temple (1716); Baron of the Exchequer (1717); Justice of the King's Bench (1718-1727); Justice of the Common Pleas (1729-1746) Honours: Kt 1717; Baron 1746 Son of Edmund Fortescue of Bierton, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, Sarah or Anne, daughter of Henry Aland of Waterford; assumed the additional surname of Aland (1704). Married: 1) Grace, daughter of Sir John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice, and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev Henry Gregory; 2) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William or Robert Dormer, Justice of the King's Bench, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Blake Fellow 20/03/1712 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Foster; GEC References: Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1746), p.668. Notes: Proposed by William Jones ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 7 Mar 1670 - 19 Dec 1746 NA6730 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 01/04/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 1831b404-9e42-4866-8514-180198e723a6