Constituency Dates
Morpeth 1660 – May 1660
Family and Education
bap. 19 June 1640, o.s. of Sir Thomas Widdrington, educ. G. Inn, entered 1641; Wormley, g.s. Herts.; Christ’s, Camb. 1653, unm. 1Arch. Ael. (ser. 3), vi. 38.
Offices Held

Freeman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1657.2Reg. of Freemen (Newcastle Recs. Committee iii), 74.

Address
Main residence: Gray's Inn.
biography text

Widdrington was returned under age at the general election of 1660 for Morpeth, no doubt as a compliment to his father. He was appointed to no committees in the Convention, but when his uncle Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax, was elected to the Commons delegation to Charles II, Widdrington obtained leave to accompany him. He died of a violent fever at The Hague in the same month.3CJ, viii. 18, 52; Eg. 2146, f. 34; Voyce from the Watch Tower, 158.

Author
M.W.H.
G.H.
E.C.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Notes
  • 1. Arch. Ael. (ser. 3), vi. 38.
  • 2. Reg. of Freemen (Newcastle Recs. Committee iii), 74.
  • 3. CJ, viii. 18, 52; Eg. 2146, f. 34; Voyce from the Watch Tower, 158.