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Family and Education
b. c. 1625, 1st s. of Thomas Whitgreave of Burton, Castle Church, Staffs. and Mary, da. of Thomas Crompton† of Stone, Staffs. m. Mary (bur. 30 Nov. 1693), da. of Sir William Bowyer* of Knypersley, Staffs. ?s.p. suc. fa. 2 Feb. 1643;Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 307-8; Staffs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 241-2; Seighford Par. Regs. ed. N. W. Tildesley, 102. Kntd. by Apr. 1658-1660, by Oct. 1660;Staffs. RO, QS/O 6, f. 97; QS/O 7, unfol.; SR v. 218. bur. 3 June 1695.Seighford Par. Regs. ed. Tildesley, 104.
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Local: j.p. Staffs. 1 May 1651-aft. 1662, 22 May – 24 Dec. 1680, 26 June 1683–?d.C231/6, p. 214; C231/8, pp. 29, 40, 84. Commr. militia, 26 July 1650, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660;CSP Dom. 1650, p. 254; SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance ... for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, c.Nov. 1655;Staffs. RO, D593/P/8/1/50. for public faith, Staffs. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Military: capt. militia horse, Staffs. by 1652-aft. Feb. 1658.SP28/242, f. 380; [G. Wharton], A Narrative of the Late Parliament (1658), 14 (E.935.5).

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 30 Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 141. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 29 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
WHITGREAVE, Thomas (c.1625-95), of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.
: of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WHITGREAVE, Thomas (c.1625-95), of Great Bridgeford, Seighford, Staffs.

Will
not found.
Estates
in early 1630s, grandfa. assessed at £17 for distraint of knighthood.H.S. Grazebrook, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Charles I’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, ii. pt. 2), 17. Whitgreave’s estate was reckoned to be worth £600 p.a. after the Restoration.Wm. Salt. Lib. S.MS.209. In 1666, his house at Seighford was assessed at 8 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. 1921), 89.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
presented Matthew Drakeford to rectory of Colton, Staffs. 1682; John Ethrington, 1683.IND1/17008, p. 90.
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