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Family and Education
bap. 11 July 1624, 1st s. of John Ireland of The Hutt, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Hayes, draper, of London, ld. mayor 1614-15.Hale in the Par. of Childwall ed. R. Dickinson (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xcii), 19; G.E. Cokayne, Some Acct. of the Ld. Mayors and Sheriffs of London (1897), 68, 71. m. 29 Jan. 1647, Margaret (d. 1 July 1675), da. and h. of Thomas Ireland of Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Lancs. s.p.Warrington ed. A. Sparke (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. lxx), 285; M. Gregson, Fragments Relative to the Hist. of the Duchy of Lancaster (Liverpool, 1824), 212; Lancs. Fun. Certs. ed. T.W. King, F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxv), 82. suc. fa. 5 May 1633;Cheshire and Lancs. Fun. Certs ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. vi), 205. Kntd. 16 June 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 228. d. 30 Apr. 1675.Lancs. Fun. Certs. ed. King, Raines, 82.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston by 1642–62;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 79, 152. Liverpool 6 June 1643–d.;Chandler, Liverpool, 314. mayor, 18 Oct. 1674–d.W. Beamont, Hale and Orford (Warrington, 1886), 127.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by Jan. 1644-aft. Dec. 1645. 1650 – ?E121/4/8/43; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 70; CCC 1369; Brereton Lttr. Bks. ii. 438. Col. militia ft. Lancs. 22 Mar.; capt. by July 1655-July 1659.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505; 1659–60, p. 24; SP25/77, pp. 876, 898. Gov. Liverpool Apr. 1655–?July 1659.TSP iii. 359.

Local: commr. assessment, Lancs. 21 Feb. 1645, 19 Dec. 1651, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672.CJ vii. 54b; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Dep. lt. by May 1645–?, c.Aug. 1660–2.SP24/77 (case of Stanley v. Birche); SP29/11/166, f. 206; Manchester Central Lib. L1/48/6/1; CSP Dom. 1661–2, pp. 524, 532. Commr. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645.A. and O. J.p. by 13 Apr. 1646–d.Lancs. RO, QSO/2/19; QSC/42–76. Sheriff, 17 Dec.. 1647–23 Feb. 1649.CJ v. 390a; LJ ix. 535b; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 73. Commr. northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648,A. and O. Mar.1650,SP28/211, ff. 629, 660; Craven, ‘Lancs.’, 176. 14 Mar. 1655,SP25/76A, f. 16v. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. maintenance of ministers, 29 Mar. 1650;Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), 1. ct. martial, James Stanley†, 7th earl of Derby, 11 Sept. 1651;Stanley Pprs. ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxvii), p. cccxxxvi. ejecting scandalous ministers, Lancs. 24 Aug. 1654;A. and O. poll tax, 1660;SR. corporations, 1662–3;SP29/61/157, f. 278. subsidy, 1663.SR.

Parlimentarian
IRELAND, Gilbert (1624-75), of Hale Hall, Childwall, Lancs.
: and Hale Hall, Lancs., Childwall.
Likenesses

Likenesses: ?oil on canvas, unknown;Hatfield House, Herts. miniature, J. Hoskins.Whereabouts unknown.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

IRELANDE, Gilbert (1624-75), of The Hutt, and Hale Hall, Childwall, Lancs.

Will
23 Apr. 1675, pr. 29 May 1675.Lancs. RO, WCW, will of Sir Gilbert Ireland.
Estates
in 1633, inherited considerable property in Lancs. and Cheshire.WARD7/84/117. In 1641, estate reckoned to be worth about £1,000 p.a.Blackwood, Lancs. 103. In 1650, estate inc. advowsons of rectory of Warrington and chapel of Hale and tithes of Childwall, Burtonwood and Sankey, Lancs.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. Fishwick, 51, 52, 66-7, 78, 195. In 1652, estate inc. manors of Bewsey, Burtonwood, Great and Little Sankey, Little Bolton, Little and Much Woolton, Liverpool, Penketh, Sutton, Tarbock and Warrington, Lancs.Lancs. RO, QDD/50/20. In 1653, purchased manor of Rixton, Lancs. from the treason trustees.CCC 2625. In 1675, estate inc. manors of Hutt and Hale, Hale Hall and property in Garston, Hale Bank, Much Woolton, Penketh and Tarbock, Lancs.; manor of Crowton and property in Bebington, Baddiley, Cuddington, Kingsley, Little Leigh, ‘Milton’, Newton, Stanthorpe and Weaverham, Cheshire.Lancs. RO, DDX 990/1; HMC Lords, iii. 265-6; Gregson, Fragments, 202.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
presented Robert Yates to rectory of Warrington, Lancs. c.1646;Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. Fishwick, 51; Calamy Revised, 551. Joseph Ward, 1664.Clergy of the C of E database. Elder, fifth Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 510.
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