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Family and Education
b. 26 May 1623, 3rd s. of Anthony Petty of Romsey, Hants. educ. Univ. of Caen 1637-8; Utrecht and Amsterdam 1643-4; Leiden 26 May 1644; Paris, 1646.Al. Ox.; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 77, 80n; Petty Papers: some unpublished writings of Sir William Petty ed. H.W.E. Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne (2 vols. 1927), i. pp. xl-xli; ii. 260-2; Oxford DNB. m. 1667, Elizabeth (d. 1708), wid. of Sir Maurice Fenton* of Mitchelstown, co. Cork, and da. of Sir Hardress Waller* of Castletown, Co. Limerick, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da. Kntd. 11 Apr. 1661. d. 16 Dec. 1687.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80-3; Petty Pprs. i. pp. xli-xlii.
Offices Held

Academic: asst. to Dr Thomas Clayton, prof. of anatomy, Oxf. Univ. 1649–50. MD and fell. of Brasenose, 7 Mar. 1650. Prof. anatomy, Jan. 1651; music, Gresham Coll. London 1651. Fell. Coll. of Physicians, 1658; pres. 8 Aug. 1667. FRS, 1663.Al. Ox.; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 77–9.

Irish: physician, army in Ireland, May 1652-June 1659.SP28/88, f. 40; CSP Dom. pp. 1651–2, pp. 236, 613; Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80n. Surveyor, land settlement, 27 Oct. 1654-Mar. 1656.Down Survey by Dr William Petty ed. T.A. Larcom (Dublin, 1851), 12–13, 108, 166. Member, cttee. to visit schs. Mar. 1656.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland, 197. Commr. distribution of army lands, 7 July 1656–9.Down Survey ed. Larcom, 184–5. Sec. to Henry Cromwell*, ?Nov. 1657-June 1659. Clerk of council of state, ?Nov. 1657-June 1659.Petty Pprs. ii. 260–2. Commr. 1649 officers, 2 Mar. 1661;NAI, Lodge’s MSS 1.A.53.55, f. 130. ct. of claims, 19 Mar. 1661.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 79. MP, Inistioge, co. Kilkenny 1661–6.CJI, i. 591. Judge, admlty. ct. 1676–85.Petty Pprs. i. p. xli.

Parlimentarian
PETTY, Dr William (1623-87), of Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.
: Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, I. Fuller, c.1651;NPG. oil on canvas, J. Closterman;Bowood, Wilts. oil on canvas, attrib. G. Kneller;Romsey Town Hall. line engraving, E. Sandys, 1683;BM; NPG. line engraving, E. Sandys, 1685;National Gallery of Ireland. mezzotint, J. Smith aft. J. Closterman, 1696.BM; NPG.

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Commons 1640-1660
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PETTY, Dr William (1623-87), of Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London and Mount Mangorton, co. Kerry.

Will
2 May 1685.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80n-83n.
Estates
(according to his own estimate): in 1652 possessed £500; by 1660 had purchased £13,000-worth of debentures for Irish lands (inc. extensive estates in cos. Kerry, Limerick and Louth); in 1685 owned property in London (inc. a house in Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, purchased in 1658), Erith in Kent and Romsey in Hants; also Irish lands worth £4,200 p.a., interests in iron, fishing, lead and marble in Ireland worth £600 p.a., wife’s jointure lands worth £850 p.a., and £12,000 in money, plate and personal property. His ‘bad debts’ at that time were £30,000.Lodge, Peerage, ii. 80n-81n.
Oxford 1644
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