Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Fortescue-Aland, Sir John, Knt.

by Joseph Foster

Fortescue-Aland, Sir John, Knt., justice of the Common Pleas, D.C.L. by diploma 4 May, 1733, F.R.S., bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1712, bencher 1714, treasurer 1716, M. P. Midhurst 1715-7, baron of Exchequer, and knighted 24 Jan., 1717, justice of King's bench 1718-27, of Common Pleas 1729-46, created Baron Fortescue, of Credan, co. Waterford, 15 Aug., 1746 (son of Edmund Fortescue, of Bierton, Bucks and his wife Anne Aland), he assumed the additional surname of Aland in 1704, and died 19 Dec., 1746.