WILMOT, John (1647-80) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 1 Apr. 1647, Letters of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester ed. J. Treglown, 5. 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Henry Wilmot, 2nd Visct. Wilmot [I] (later earl of Rochester), and 2nd w. Anne (1614-96), da. of Sir John St John^‡, bt. and wid. of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd bt. educ. Burford g.s.; Wadham, Oxf. 1660, MA 9 Sept 1661; travelled abroad c.1661-5 (France, Italy). J. Johnson, A Profane Wit, 18-19, 25-29, 40-54; Ath. Ox. iii. 1229; CSP Dom. 1661-2, p.154. m. 29 Jan. 1667, Elizabeth (d.1681)^, da. of John Malet (Malett) of Enmore, Somerset, 1s. 3da.; HMC Le Fleming, 44; Verney ms mic. M636/35, C. Gardiner to Sir R. Verney, 8 Aug. 1681. 1 illegit. da. with Elizabeth Barry. HMC Bath, ii. 160. d. 26 July 1680; VCH Oxon. xii. 447-8; Luttrell, Brief Relation, i. 53. will 22 June 1680, pr. 23 Feb. 1681. TNA, PROB 11/365.

Offices Held

Gent. of the bedchamber 1667–d.; Verney ms mic. M636/20, M. Elmes to Sir R. Verney, 14 Mar. 1667; HMC Laing, i. 386. kpr. of the king’s game, Oxon. 1668–d.; CSP Dom. 1667–8, p. 253; G. Greene, Rochester’s Monkey, 87. ranger, Woodstock Park 1674–d.; VCH Oxon. xii. 440–1; CSP Dom. 1673–5, p. 182. master of the king’s hawks 1675–d. CSP Dom. 1675–6, p. 87; Greene, Rochester’s Monkey, 87.

Dep. lt., Som. 1672–d.; CSP Dom. 1672–3, p. 101. alderman, Taunton 1677–?d. HMC Portland, iii. 357.

Vol., RN 1665, 1666; CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 562; G. Burnet, Some Passages in the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1680), 10–11. capt. tp. of horse, duke of Monmouth's regt. 1666. Bodl. Carte 222, ff. 107–8, Carte 72, f. 95.

Parlimentarian

WILMOT, John (1647-80)

Associated with: Woodstock, Oxon. and Adderbury, Oxon.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by unknown artist (after orig. by J. Huysmans), c.1665-70, NPG 804; oil on canvas by Sir P. Lely, c.1666-7, V&A Museum.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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