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Family and Education
b. 1604, 1st s. of George Waller of Groombridge, Kent and Mary, da. of Richard Hardress.Add. 5711, ff. 74v-75. educ. Oxford Univ., MA (hon.) 20 May 1649;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, ii. 73. Dublin University, MA (hon.) 25 Aug. 1655.Clarke Pprs. iii. 50. m. 26 June 1629 Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir John Dowdall of Kilfinney, co. Limerick, 2s. 4da.Lismore Pprs. ser. 1, ii. 329; Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ire. (1904), 628. Kntd. 6 July 1629.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 196. d. 1666.
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Military: ?soldier, Holland or Germany 1630s. Lt.-col. of ft. regt. of Sir William St Leger, Prot. forces in Ireland, 1642; col. of ft. Oct. 1642-Apr. 1647. Gov. Cork City and cdr. Munster forces, Jan.-Apr. 1644.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 442. Col. of ft. New Model army, Apr. 1645-Feb. 1660.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 443–5. Member, gen. cttee. of officers, 29 Aug. 1647.Clarke Pprs. i. 223–4. Maj.-gen. army in Ireland, Dec. 1649-Feb. 1660.SP28/80, f. 573D; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 445–8. Gov. Limerick 16 Jan. 1652.Eg. 1762, f. 202v.

Irish: MP, Askeaton 1634; co. Limerick 1640.McGrath, Biographical Dict. Member, cttee. for poor laws, Dublin 7 June 1653. Commr. transplanting Ulster Scots, 13 July 1653. Member, cttee. for transplantation, 1 Aug. 1653, 26 Oct. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 344, 360, 369, 451. J.p. co. Dublin 15 Sept. 1653–?TCD, MS 844, f. 139v. Asst. ct. of claims, 7 Oct. 1654.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 454. Commr. assessment, co. and city of Dublin, cos. Limerick, Kilkenny, Cork, Clare 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655; co. Dublin 24 June 1657;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). Dublin hosp. 3 Jan. 1655. Member, cttee. for approbation of preachers, 4 Apr. 1656.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 473, 588. Commr. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.Rushworth, Hist. Collns. vii. 1395, 1416; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, i. 728n; A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Cornw., Devon, Exeter 7 Dec. 1649; Som. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650;A. and O. tendering Engagement, Cornw. 28 Jan. 1650;FSL, X.d.483 (47). militia, c.1650.R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 170.

Parlimentarian
WALLER, Sir Hardress (1604-66), of Castletown, co. Limerick.
: of Castletown, co. Limerick.
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Commons 1640-1660
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WALLER, Sir Hardress (1604-66), of Castletown, co. Limerick.

Will
attainted 1660.
Estates
In 1630s held 2,300 acres in co. Limerick, (£585 p.a.), 450 acres in co. Tipperary (£101 p.a.) and mortgage of 120 acres (£30 p.a.); est. £800 annual income from Irish lands 1641: with wife’s jointure lands (£590 p.a.) this fits in with 1660 claim that he held lands worth £1,500 p.a. before rebellion.McGrath, Biographical Dict.; Irish Rebellion ed. Hogan, 24-5; Eg. 2549, f. 93. Estate forfeited by attainder, Oct. 1660.CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 54.
Oxford 1644
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