Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Werden, Sir John, bart.
Werden, Sir John, bart., created D.C.L. 22 May, 1683, bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1660 (as son and heir of Robert, of Barton, Cheshire, esq.), created a baronet 28 Nov., 1672, M.P. Reigate Jan., 1673, till void same month (28th), re-elected (Feb.) 1673-78, and 1685-7, secretary to the duke of York, and a commissioner of customs temp. James II. and William and Anne; born at Cholmeaton, Cheshire, Lady Day, 1640; died 29 Oct., 1716, buried 7 Nov. in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.