John Stourton (died 1438)

John Stourton (died 1438) of Preston Plucknett in Somerset was seven times MP for Somerset, in 1419, 1420, December 1421, 1423, 1426, 1429 and 1435.

He was the younger son of John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire, by his second wife a certain Alice (d.1407). His elder half-brother was William Stourton (died 1413) of Stourton, Speaker of the House of Commons and father of John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton (1400–1462).

He married three times but left no male children, only three daughters and co-heiresses. His first marriage was before 1403 to Joan Banaster (c.1376–1406) who was a daughter and heiress of William Banaster (d.1395) of East Lydford, Somerset and the widow of Robert Affeton. They had a daughter, Cecily Stourton, who married firstly John Hill, MP, of Spaxton; secondly Sir Thomas Curiell/Kyriel of Sarrecourt, Isle of Thanet.

Before 1416 he married Alice Denys (or Peny) and had a daughter, Johanna Stourton, who became wife of John Sydenham, MP, of Combe Sydenham in Somerset. She inherited from her father the manor of Brympton d'Evercy, Somerset, later the seat of her descendants the Sydenham baronets.

His third marriage, some time before 1430, was to Katherine Payne (d. 20 March 1473) who was a daughter of Thomas Payne of Paynshay in Devon by his wife Margery Yeovilton, daughter and heiress of Peter Yeovilton of Speckington, Somerset. They had a daughter Alicia Stourton, who married twice. Firstly to William Daubeney (1424–1460/1), MP, of South Ingilby in Lincolnshire and South Petherton and Barrington Court in Somerset, by whom she was the mother of Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (1451–1508), KG. Secondly she married Robert Hill of Houndstone. Their daughter, Joan Hill, married Sir Nicholas Wadham (died 1542) by whom she had many children.

The manors he held included Preston Plucknett, his seat, where he built the manor-house which survives as Abbey Farm, and Brympton d'Evercy, Somerset, of which he acquired the reversion.