John Pyne (died 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, but fell out with Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum. At the Restoration he was exempted from the general pardon.
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Pyne was the son of Thomas Pyne and his wife Amey Hanham, daughter of Thomas Hanham, serjeant-at-law, of Wimborne Minster, Dorset.
In 1625, Pyne was elected Member of Parliament for Poole. He was re-elected in 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1628 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. In 1629, his father already dead, he succeeded to the estates of his grandfather in several counties including the manors of Crewkerne and Little Windsor.
In April 1640, Pyne was re-elected MP for Poole in the Short Parliament, and he was elected again for Poole in the Long Parliament in November 1640. On the outbreak of the Civil War he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Paulet's Somerset Trained Band, the 800-strong force of local militia. However, Paulet was a committed Royalist and Pyne led the regiment over to the Parliamentarians. In August 1642 the regiment was routed by a Royalist force at the Battle of Marshall's Elm. However, it took part in the Siege of Sherborne in September and was still active at the Second Battle of Modbury in February 1643.
In 1643 Pyne was listed as a colonel of the militia raised for the сounty of Somerset and a commissioner for levying taxes for the parliament. Though a strong republican, and an opponent of the Church and churchmen, he withdrew from taking any part as soon as he saw what he thought were the ultimate designs of Oliver Cromwell, and he strongly disapproved of the trial and death of King Charles I.