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Sir Peyton Ventris (November 1645 – 6 April 1691) was an Englishjudge andpolitician, the first surviving son of Edward Ventris (died 1649) of themanor of Granhams (now Granhams Close),Great Shelford,Cambridgeshire, although he was born inLittle Wenham,Suffolk.
Ventris enteredJesus College, Cambridge, on 4 July 1660,[1] and like his father then moved to theMiddle Temple on 3 February 1664. He was called tothe bar on 2 June 1671, his chambers inFleet Street being above Middle Temple. He was not a success as apleader and turned to reporting. Ventris produced two volumes of reports which were published in 1696 after his death, they mainly concerned arguments in king's bench and common pleas.
Ventris married Margaret Whiting, daughter of Henry, a shipowner ofCoggeshall,Essex, and ofIpswich,Suffolk. Ventris moved to Ipswich, and in 1681 he became thetown clerk and one of threecounsels to the corporation. When a new town charter was created in July 1684 he was not named and lost these civic offices.
In 1685 Ventris became ajustice of the peace for Suffolk in 1685, and in 1687, he inherited extensive properties from his father-in-law.
He was elected as aWhig[2] toone of Ipswich's seats in theConvention Parliament in January 1689 following the 1688 revolution. He took the oath as aserjeant-at-law on 2 May 1689, and a few days later the king made him ajustice of common pleas on 4 May 1689. Ventris wasknighted on 31 October 1689.He was living in parish of St NicholasIpswich in 1689.[3]
After a long illness Ventris died on 6 April 1691 and was buried in the chancel ofSt Nicholas' Church, Ipswich, survived by his wife, his mother, five sons, and a daughter.
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