CHARLTON, Robert (c.1591-1655), of Apley Castle, Wellington; Haughmond, Upton Magna, Salop and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1591, 5th but 4th surv. s. of Andrew Charlton (d. 1617) of Apley and Margaret, da. of James Barker of Haughmond, Upton Magna.Vis. Salop 1623 i. (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 101-2; PROB11/130/547. educ. Shrewsbury 7 Oct. 1597; Broadgate Hall, Oxf. 31 Jan. 1606, aged 15; G. Inn 3 Feb. 1608.Shrewsbury School Regestum, 170; Al. Ox.; G. Inn Admiss. i. 116. d. unm. 1655.PROB6/31, f. 251.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Salop 24 Feb. 1642–?, 17 Feb. 1647-bef. Jan. 1650.C231/5, p. 509; C231/6, p. 74. Commr. for Salop, 13 June 1644; assessment, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Bridgnorth June 1646.Salop Archives, BB/C1/1/1, f. 47v.

Religious: elder, first Salop classis, Apr. 1647.W.A. Shaw, Hist. English Church (2 vols. 1900), ii. 406.

Parlimentarian

CHARLTON, Robert (c.1591-1655), of Apley Castle, Wellington; Haughmond, Upton Magna, Salop and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

: of Apley Castle, Wellington; Haughmond, Upton Magna, Salop and Mdx., Gray’s Inn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CHARLTON, Robert (c.1591-1655), of Apley Castle, Wellington; Haughmond, Upton Magna, Salop and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Will

d. intestate, admon. 29 Jan. 1656.NLW, Aston Hall Deeds, 2411; PROB6/31, f. 251.

Estates

personal estate said to have been worth £5,000 at death.NLW, Aston Hall Deeds, 2411.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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