STRADLING, Sir Edward (1600–1644), of St Donats Castle, Glam.

Family and Education

bap. 9 Nov. 1600, 1st s. of Sir John Stradling†, 1st bt. of St Donats, and Elizabeth (d. 1640), da. of Edward Gage of Firle, Suss.Par. reg. St Donats; The Story of St Donat’s, ed. R. Denning (1983), 47; CB. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 16 June 1615, ‘aged 14’.Al. Ox. m. Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Mansel, 1st bt. of Margam, Glam., 4s., 5da.Clark, Librum Patrum, 438. Kntd. by 5 June 1622.Justices of the Peace, ed. Phillips, 296 suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 9 Sept. 1637.PROB11/175/311 (Sir John Stradlinge); C2/Chas.I/C48/23; CB. d. 20 June 1644.Wood, City of Oxford, ed. Clark, iii. 252.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Glam. 5 June 1622–d.Justices of the Peace, ed. Phillips, 296–301. Dep. lt. 1631–?Glam. Co. Hist. iv. 167. Commr. sewers, 25 July 1639;Coventry Docquets, 80. oyer and terminer, Wales and marches 31 July 1640;C181/5, f. 185. array (roy.), Glam. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. defence of Glam. (roy.) 9 June 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 44.

Military: col. of ft. (roy.) by 23 Oct. 1642.P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers (New York, 1981), 359–60.

Parlimentarian

STRADLING, Sir Edward (1600–1644), of St Donats Castle, Glam.

: of St Donats Castle, Glam.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, style of W. Dobson;Whereabouts unknown. wash drawing, T. Athow.Ashmolean Museum, Oxf.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

STRADLING, Sir Edward (1600–1644), of St Donats Castle, Glam.

Will

not found.

Estates

1629, property in Great Queen Street, betw. Drury Lane and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Westminster, and in ‘Old Witch’ [Aldwych] Close, part of which sold Dec. 1632;Survey of London, v. 42, 93. 1645 his heir said to be worth £4,000 p.a. ‘if out of lease’.Cam. Soc. lxxiv. 216.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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