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John Hull (MP for Hythe)

English Member of Parliament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ123232106 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Hull (by 1479–1540 or later), of Hythe, Kent, was an English Member of Parliament (MP), and a wool and cloth merchant.

He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Hythe in 1529 and perhaps in 1536. For the next Parliament, in 1539, the members for Hythe are unrecorded.

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The public source identifies “John Hull (MP for Hythe)” as english Member of Parliament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around John, Hull and Hythe.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1479, 1540, 1529, 1536—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with John, Hull and Hythe providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “John Hull (MP for Hythe)”, the useful work is to connect “english Member of Parliament” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123232106. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1479, 1540, 1529 and 1536.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Hull (MP for Hythe)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.