Craven Peyton

Craven Peyton ( – 25 December 1738) of Stratton Street, Westminster, was an English politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1718 and Warden of the Mint from 1708 until his removal in 1714. Early life Born , Peyton was the only son of the former Jane Robinson and Sir Robert Peyton of East Barnet, Knight of the Shire of Middlesex. His father, a leading Exclusionist, fled to Holland in 1685 due to his involvement in the Monmouth Rebellion. He "returned to England with the Prince of Orange in November 1688, but died the following year, in great debt, and without having regained possession of his estates." Craven was arrested at his father's funeral but came to an agreement with his father's creditors and was released. His maternal grandfather was Lionel Robinson of Cowton Grange, Yorkshire and his paternal grandfather was Henry Peyton, examiner in Chancery from 1632 to 1654. He was educated at Lincoln's Inn in 1680 before attending Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 13 May 1681, aged 17. He was a Captain of the Marquess of Winchester's Regiment of horse in 1690.