Family and Education
b. c. 1601, bro. of Thomas Watkins (d. bef. 1660), clerk of privy seal. m. (1) ?Ellen, ?s.p. (2) 30 Dec. 1661, Katherine (d. 1712), da. of John Abington of Dowdeswell, Glos., wid. of Robert Dalzell, 1st earl of Carnwath [S], s.p.Coventry Docquets, 563, 637; Mar. Lics. Faculty Office (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 57; CP iii. 49-50. d. betw. 22 Apr.-3 May 1662.Pepys, Diary, iii. 77.
Offices Held
Central: clerk of privy seal and registrar ct. of requests, Dec. 1628 – Feb. 1647, 1660–d.
Parlimentarian
: of St Margaret’s, Westminster and Kent., Frognal.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
WATKINS, William (c.1601-62), of St Margaret’s, Westminster and Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent.
Will
not found.
Estates
copyholder of messuage at Twickenham, 1633;LMA, ACC/0276/477. acquired estate of Frognal, Chislehurst, probably in or soon after 1634, but with mortgage to Philip Warwick*;E.A. Webb, G.W. Miller, J. Beckwith, Hist. Chislehurst (1899), 274, 279; ‘Philip Warwick’, supra. leased from crown a piece of land near St James’s Park, Westminster, 1661.CTB i. 281.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
Religion
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