Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
English Member of Parliament
John Donning (c. 1530 – 1578 or after), of Chichester and Rye, Sussex, was an English Member of Parliament.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Rye in 1571. He was Mayor of Rye 1567–8, 1570–1, 1571–2, and 1573–4. The last recorded mention of him is in 1578.