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Family and Education
b. 1614, 2nd s. of Justinian Povey (d. 1652) of Hounslow and Anne Keterick.Oxford DNB. educ. G. Inn 1 Nov. 1633.GI Admiss. 202 m. 1659,Add. 11411, f. 76. Mary, wid. of John Agard of King’s Bromley, Staffs, da. of John Adderly, 1da. d. c. 1705.Oxford DNB.
Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 11 Feb. 1646; ancient, 21 May 1658.PBG Inn, i. 357, 422.

Central: commr. affairs of America, c.1652.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 9. Chairman, cttee. for America, 9 Oct. 1657–?May 1659.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 460. Sec. for foreign plantations, c.Mar. 1660.Eg. 2395, f. 243. Member, council of trade, 7 Nov. 1660–20 Oct. 1668. Commr. plantations, 1 Dec. 1660–30 July 1670.Officials of the Board of Trade ed. J. Sainty (1974), 18, 20, 112. Recvr.-gen. rents and revenues, Africa and America 20 Sept. 1661–?CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 94. Sec. cttee. for foreign plantations, 1661. Commr. and treas. Tangier 27 Oct. 1662-Mar. 1665.Pepys’s Diary, iii. 177, 238.

Local: commr. assessment, I. of Ely 9 June 1657;A. and O. Mdx. 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Thetford 1677, 1679;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, Cambs., Mdx., Westminster 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mdx. Mar. 1661–?d.; Thetford, Norf. 1667–?d.C231/7, pp. 9, 313.

Court: treas. duke of York’s household, July 1660-Sept. 1666.CCSP v. 46; Pepys’s Diary, vii. 192n. Master of requests, extraordinary, July 1662–85.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 451. Member, queen’s council, ?-1688.Oxford DNB.

Academic: FRS, ? Jan. 1661 – d.; cllr. 1663, 1679, 1691.M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows (Chalfont St Giles, 1982), 168–9.

Civic: recorder, Thetford, Norf. c.1667-aft 1668.C231/7, p. 313; HP Commons, 1660–90, i. 333.

Parlimentarian
POVEY, Thomas (1614-c.1705), of Hounslow, and Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Westminster.
: and Mdx., Gray’s Inn and Westminster., Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, J.M. Wright, c.1657.NT, Dyrham Park.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

POVEY, Thomas (1614-c.1705), of Hounslow, and Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Westminster.

Will
admon. granted to his son-in-law, William Blathwayt, July 1705.PROB6/81, f. 149.
Estates
on d. of fa. (1652) granted remainder from sale of Burwell manor, Cambs., charged with sister’s portion of £1,000 and £60 annuity for his brother Francis;PROB11/220/447. profits of trade and office unknown but considerable, c.1655-1665; after his marriage in 1659 he admitted that he had ‘much perplexed and broken my little estate’ and that his wife’s ‘competency’ was very useful to him;Add. 11411, f. 76. received fee of £100 p.a. as recvr.-gen. of Africa and America, Sept. 1661-?;CSP Dom. 1661-2, p. 94. continued to enjoy half profits of Tangier treasurership aft. 1665, and acquired £400 p.a. pension on resigning as treas. to duke of York, 1666.Oxford DNB.
Oxford 1644
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