Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1662.
Background
Ayloffe was the second son of Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet and his first wife Catharine, daughter and coheir to John Sterne, of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire. His elder brother William died within the lifetime of his father so Ayloffe inherited the estates and the baronetcy on his father"s death in 1627.
Career
He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. At the outbreak of the English Civil War King Charles I appointed Ayloffe High Sheriff of Essex. Consequently, he was imprisoned by Parliament, his estates being sequestrated and himself obliged to sell that of Brittains.
He was fined, 29 May 1649, £2,000, increased to £3,000.
He died in 1662 and was buried at Braxted. Ayloffe married three times.
Firstly, about 1611, to Alice, daughter of Martin Avondale. She died and was buried on 28 November 1612, at Hornchurch, they had no children.
Ayloffe"s third marriage was to Margaret, sister of George Porter.
She remarried John Wall, of Saint Clement Danes, Middlesex and died 1682.
Membership
Cavalier Parliament]
In 1661 Ayloffe was elected Member of Parliament for Essex in the Cavalier Parliament.