Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet [SEP] date of death
Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet
Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet (29 August 1592 – March 1662) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1662. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Biography.
Ayloffe was the second son of Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet and his first wife Catharine, daughter and coheir to John Sterne, of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire. His elder brother William died within the lifetime of his father so Ayloffe inherited the estates
The sixth Baronet was an antiquary. The title became extinct on his death 19 April 1781.
William Ayloffe, father of the first Baronet, was a distinguished judge.
Ayloffe baronets, of Braxted Magna (1611).
- Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet (1563–1627)
- Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet (1592–1662)
- Sir William Ayloffe, 3rd Baronet (1618–1675)
- Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 4th Baronet (1631–1722)
- Sir John Ayloffe, 5th Baronet (c. 1673–1730)