Regency Personalities Series-Sir John Simeon 1st Baronet

Regency Personalities Series

In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Sir John Simeon 1st Baronet

1756 – 4 February 1824

Sir John Simeon 1st Baronet of Walliscot in Oxfordshire was Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading in Berkshire from 1797 to 1802 and from 1806 to 1818. He also practised as barrister and a member of Lincoln’s Inn, and held the offices of Recorder of Reading 1779-1807 and Master in Chancery from 1795 until 1808 when he became Senior Master, and was created 1st Baronet Simeon in 1815.

Simeon was the second eldest son of Richard Simeon (died 1784) and Elizabeth Hutton. His elder brother, named Richard after their father, died early. The third brother, Edward Simeon, was a director of the Bank of England. His youngest brother, Charles Simeon, became a prominent evangelical clergyman.

Rebecca, Lady Simeon

John Simeon married Rebecca Cornwall, daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House in Middlesex, in 1783. They had a number of children:

Richard G. Simeon married Louisa-Edith Barrington on 8 April 1813, producing three sons and two daughters
Harriet Simeon married Sir Frederick Francis Baker, 2nd Baronet in July 1814, producing 1 daughter and 3 sons.