ANNESLEY, Arthur (1614-86) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 10 July 1614, 1st s. of Sir Francis Annesley^‡, Visct. Valentia [I], and 1st w. Dorothy (d.1624), da. of Sir John Philipps^‡, 1st bt. of Picton Castle, Pemb. and Anne Perrot. educ. private tutors; Hadley School, Mdx. (Mr. John Vade); D. Greene, ‘Arthur Annesley, First Earl of Anglesey 1614-1686’, (Chicago Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1972), 6. Magdalen, Oxf. c.1628-33; Greene thesis, 7-8. L. Inn 1633, called 1640, bencher 1659; travelled abroad (Italy, Switzerland, France) 1634-6. Ibid. 9-10. m. 24 Apr. 1638, Elizabeth (d. Jan. 1698), da. and coh. of Sir James Altham^‡ of Oxhey, Herts., and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Sutton, Acton, Mdx., 7s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da. (3 d.v.p.). d. 6 Apr. 1686; will 23 Feb. 1686, pr. 18 June 1686. TNA, PROB 11/383.

Offices Held

Commr. Irish affairs 1645, 1647, obstructions 1648 – 49, trade Nov. 1660–72, plantations Dec. 1660–70, prizes 1666–? CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 304., Union with Scotland; Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, Scot. Hist. Soc. ser. 1, 40, p. 189. Admiralty 1673 – 79, Tangier 1673–84; HEHL, EL 8456; CTB, vii. 1252–3. pres. Council of State 25 Feb. – 31 May 1660; PC 31 May 1660–85; v. treas. [I], Aug. 1660–7; treas. of the navy 1667 – 68; ld. privy seal 1673–82. HP Commons, 1660–90, i. 537.

Commr. for oyer and terminer, Wales 1661; dep. lt. Carm., Pemb. and Rad. 1661 – ?74; bailiff, Bedford level 1665 – 66, 1669 – d., conservator 1667 – 69; steward of crown manors, Rad. 1675 – 82; freeman, Oxford 1681. Ibid.

Capt. of horse [I], 1661-aft. 1664. Dalton, Irish Army Lists 1661–85, pp. 3, 52.

Asst. R. Adventurers into Africa 1668–70; HP Commons, 1660–90, i. 537. FRS 1668–85. Hunter, Royal Society, 206–7.

Parlimentarian

ANNESLEY, Hon. Arthur (1614-86), of Drury Lane, Westminster, and Bletchingdon, Oxon.

Associated with: Dublin; Mountnorris, co. Armagh; Drury Lane, Westminster, Mdx.; Farnborough, Hants; Bletchingdon, Oxon. and Totteridge, Herts.

Likenesses

oil on canvas, aft. J. M. Wright, c.1676, NPG 3805.

Author

Creighton, Anne

Handley, Stuart

Volume

Lords 1660-1715