MAYNARD, Sir William, 1st Bt. (1641-85), of Walthamstow, Essex.

Maynard was a second cousin of Banastre Maynard. His father, who acquired a small property at Walthamstow in 1639, was a royalist sympathizer, assessed by the committee for the advance of money for £1,000 in 1644, and decimated in 1656 on an estate valued at £200 p.a. Maynard himself, a Tory, was returned to James II’s Parliament for the county with the support of the Duke of Albemarle (Christopher Monck). A moderately active Member he was appointed to four committees, of which that to estimate the yield of a tax on new buildings was the most important. He died on 7 Nov. 1685 during the second session. His great-grandson, the 4th baronet, represented Essex from 1759 to 1772.VCH Essex, vi. 255; Cal. Comm. Adv. Money, 334; Thurloe, iv. 436; Bramston Autobiog. (Cam. Soc. xxxii), 175-8.