John Proude [SEP] date of death
John Proude
John Proude (died ca. 1409), of Sellindge and Canterbury, Kent, was an English politician.
Family.
Proude married three times. Before 1374, he married a woman named Margaret, and they had one son and one daughter. Before 1404, he married for a second time, to Joan. He later married a woman named Christine.
Career.
Proude was a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Canterbury, Kent in 1391 and 1394.
Mary Penington
Mary Penington (1623–1682) was one of the early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She wrote an autobiography "On Quakers, Medicine, and Property", that was discovered and published 40 years after her death.
Mary Penington was the only daughter of Sir John Proude, an army officer from Kent. Mary became an orphan at the age of three, and was taken into the care of Sir Edward Partridge, a bachelor, and lived with other guardians who Mary later said