DEVEREUX, Sir Walter (1592-1641), of Lamphey, Pemb., Essex House, The Strand, Westminster and Chartley, Staffs.

Family and Education

bap. 21 Jan. 1592, illegit. s. of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex (exec. 1601) and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Southwell of Woodrising, Norf.; half-bro. of Michael Molyns†. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1604; riding academy, Angers, France 1608; adm. ?M. Temple (hon.), 1618. unm. Kntd. 2 Sept. 1617. bur. 24 July 1641.Regs. of St Olave, Hart St., London, 1563-1700 ed. W.B. Bannerman (1916), 15; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 261; W. Camden, Elizabeth (1688), 624; Al. Ox.; ‘Les Gentilshommes Étrangers ... a l'académie d'équitation d'Angers au xviie. siècle’, Revue d’Anjou, xxvi. 12; M. Temple Admiss. i. 108; MTR ii. 626; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 165; St Clement Danes London par. reg.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of ft. regt. of 3rd earl of Essex, Low Countries 1624-c.1626.SP84/121, ff. 254v, 269v-70v, 274, 277.

Household: commr. land transactions to 3rd earl of Essex, 18 May 1620-at least 1632.Longleat House, Devereux mss, box 7, 103; box 8, 116.

Parlimentarian

DEVEREUX, Walter (c.1591-1641), of Lamphey, Pemb., Essex House, The Strand, Westminster and Chartley, Staffs.

: Pemb., Essex House, The Strand, Westminster and Staffs., Chartley.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DEVEREUX, Sir Walter (1592-1641), of Lamphey, Pemb., Essex House, The Strand, Westminster and Chartley, Staffs.

Will

none found.

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Essex House, Strand, Westminster.

Religion

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