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Family and Education
b. 1599, Aged over 19 in Jan. 1619, TNA C142/397/67. 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Thomas Clinton†, 3rd earl of Lincoln, and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Henry Knyvet‡, of Charlton, Wilts. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1618; G. Inn 1620. m. (1) c.1622, Bridget (d.1646), da. William Fiennes, Visct. Saye and Sele, 2s. d.v.p., 8da. (bet. 5 and 7 d.v.p.); (2) c.1646, Elizabeth (d.1675), da. of Sir Arthur Gorges‡, of Chelsea, Mdx., wid. of Sir Robert Stanley‡ (d.1632), s.p. KB 4 Nov. 1616. d. 21 May 1667; will 21 May 1667, deposed before PCC 28 Sept. 1667, inventory 8 Oct. 1667. TNA, PROB 20/1636; PROB 32/2/13.
Offices Held

Commr. to Scottish Army in England 1645; excise 1646; exclusion from sacrament 1646; sale of bishops’ lands 1646; compounding 1647; appeals at Oxf. Univ. 1647; appeals from ordinance of indemnity 1647; affairs of Ireland 1647; scandalous offences 1648, CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 264; 1625–49 Addenda, p. 709; A. and O. i. 847, 852, 905, 914, 927, 937, 1208; HMC 5th Rep. 143. plantations 1660.

Commr. sewers, Lincs. 1632, 1635, 1638, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1664, CSP Dom. 1631–3, pp. 404, 526, 534; TNA, C181/5, pp. 18, 221; C181/6, pp. 203, 322, 388; C181/7, pp. 75, 239, 259. to receive papers taken in sequestrations, Lincs. 1643, militia, Lincs. 1660, assessment, Lincs. 1657. A. and O. i. 343, 1239; ii. 1072, 1435.

Col., brig. of horse, Count Mansfeld’s expedition, Nov. 1624-Jan. 1625; HMC 10th Rep. VI, 112; CSP Dom. 1623–5, pp. 327, 352, 378, 448. col., regt. of ft. (Parl.), Sept. 1642-Aug. 1643? CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 395.

Council for the Royal Fishing 1661. Bodl. Clarendon 92, ff. 148v-57; TNA, SP 29/40/75.

Parlimentarian
CLINTON, Theophilus (1599-1667)
Associated with: Stanley House, Chelsea, Mdx. (from 1646);Survey of London, iv. 43; PA, HL/PO/DC/CP/1/1, pp. 66-8.; Westminster.HMC Le Fleming, 49; TNA, PROB 32/2/13.;
FIENNES
Author
Littleton, Charles
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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