Sir John Archer (1598-1682) of Essex and Lincolnshire, a lawyer at Gray's Inn, was a parliamentarian with Presbyterian symnpathies during the civil War abnd the chair of a Lincolnshire standing committee. He was elected to but did not serve in the 2nd Protectorate Parliament of 1656, and was named Serjeant-at-law in 1658. In 1659 Richard Cromwell named him a justice of the Court of Common Pleas but Archer did not keep this office after the Restoration, although he was a judge on the Norfolk, Midlands, and Western assizes under Charles II, and regained a seat on Common Pleas together with a knighthood in 1663.
From the description of Diary of Sir John Archer, 1663. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 730072756
