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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Commons 1640-1660
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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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