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John Suckling (politician)

Sir John Suckling (1569-1627) was a politician of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Sir John was knighted by King James I and was successively master of requests, comptroller of the household and secretary of state. He sat in the first and second parliaments of Charles I's reign, and was made a privy councillor. During his career he amassed a considerable fortune, which was inherited by his son, the poet, Sir John Suckling.