Family and Education
bap. 21 Mar. 1635, 2nd but 1st surv. John Colepeper, later Bar. Colepeper, and 2nd w. Judith (1606-91), da. of Sir Thomas Colepeper‡, ‘the elder’, of Hollingbourne, Kent; bro. John Colepeper, 3rd Bar. Colepeper and Cheney Colepeper* [831], 4th Bar. Colepeper; educ. unknown; m. 3 Aug. 1659 Margaretta (1635-1710), da. and coh. of Jan van Hesse, heer van Pierschil and Wena, Zeeland, 1da; 2da. illegit. with Susanna Willis, alias Welden, alias Laycock; d. 27 Jan. 1689; will 17 Jan. 1689, admon. 22 Feb. 1689 to wid. De Nederlandsche Leeuw, xiv. 172; TNA, PROB 6/65, f. 18v; PROB 11/401; Suss. Arch. Coll. xlvii. 69-70.
Offices Held
Commr. trade 1660 – 68, trade and plantations 1671 – 74, (vice-pres. of council 1672–4), mercantile treaty with United Provinces, 1674–5.
Dep. lt and lt-col, militia horse, Kent, ? 1661 – ?68; gov. and capt., I.o.W. 1661 – 69; capt, coy of foot, I o.W 1666–7.
Lt-gen. and gov.-gen, Virginia, 1678 – 83.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Leeds Castle, Kent (from 1663); St James’ St, Westminster (from c.1670); Hammersmith (from c.1670).D. Cleggett, Hist. of Leeds Castle and its Families (1990), 63, 70; Suss. Arch. Coll. xlvii. 69.;
CULPEPER
Likenesses
oil on canvas, attributed to Adriaen Hanneman, 1664, Leeds Castle, Kent.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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