CURZON, Sir John (1598-1686), of Kedleston, Derbys.

Family and Education

b. 3 Nov. 1598, 1st s. of John Curzon of Kedleston, and Millicent (bur. 27 Jan. 1619), da. of Sir Ralph Sacheverell of Stanton, Derbys. wid. of Thomas Gell of Hopton, Derbys.‘The regs. of the par. of Kedleston, Derbys.’ ed. L.L. Simpson, Jnl. of the Derbys. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. xl. 99, 105; Glover, Derbys. ii. 566; Vis. Derbys. (Harl. Soc. n.s. viii), 9. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 12 June 1618;Al. Ox. I. Temple 8 Feb. 1620.I. Temple database. m. 26 Aug. 1623, Patience (d. 30 Mar. 1642), da. of Sir Thomas Crew† of Steane, Northants. 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.).C142/485/100; Vis. Derbys. 9-10; J. C. Cox, Churches of Derbys. iii. 181. suc. fa. 5 May 1632;C142/485/100. cr. bt. [S] 18 June 1636, [Eng.] 11 Aug. 1641;CB. Kntd. 5 Aug. 1641;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 210. d. 13 Dec. 1686.Cox, Churches of Derbys. iii. 181.

Offices Held

Local: ?commr. Forced Loan, Derbys., Derby 1627;C193/12/2, ff. 9v, 82. charitable uses, Derbys. 3 July 1629, 17 Feb. 1632, 16 June 1635,C192/1, unfol. 12 July 1661;C93/26/1. inquiry, High Peak forest 10 July 1634. 2 July 1634 – bef.Jan. 1650DL17/81. J.p. Derbys., 15 Mar. 1655–6 July 1670.C231/5, p. 142; C231/6, p. 306; C231/7, p. 375. Dep. lt. by July 1635-aft. Nov. 1642.J.C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbys. Annals, 158; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 297; HMC Cowper, ii. 310; CJ ii. 828a; LJ v. 428a. Sheriff, 30 Sept. 1637–4 Nov. 1638.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 31. Commr. gaol delivery, Derby 17 Nov. 1638, 8 Feb. 1645, 25 Feb. 1663.C181/5, ff. 119, 248; C181/7, p. 193. Recvr.-gen. duchy of Lancaster, 1641–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 18; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 147. Commr. disarming recusants, Derbys. 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. assessment, 1642, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Member, Derbys. co. cttee. 3 Aug. 1642–?LJ v. 260b. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; New Model ordinance, 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Derbys., Leics. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 3 Feb. 1657–1 Feb. 1671;C181/6, pp. 215, 370; C181/7, pp. 15, 534. poll tax, Derbys. 1660; subsidy, 1663.SR. Steward, soke of Wirksworth, Derbys. 24 Mar. 1665–d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 175.

Central: member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Oct. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646. Member, cttee. for the sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

CURZON, John (1598-1686), of Kedleston, Derbys.

: of Kedleston, Derbys.

Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. R. Hall, Kedleston church, Derbys.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CURZON, Sir John (1598-1686), of Kedleston, Derbys.

Will

18 Sept. 1682, pr. 3 Feb. 1687.PROB11/386, f. 145v.

Estates

in 1632, inherited manors of Kedleston, Weston and Windley Hall, Ivonbrooke Grange and lands in parishes of Duffield, Mugginton and Wirksworth, Derbys., and in Andover, Hants.C142/485/100. In 1636-7, purchased lands in Ullesthorpe and Claybrooke, Leics. for £3,250.C6/114/28; C6/130/57. In 1648, he and Sir John Coke* purchased rectory and parsonage of Lullington and Coton, Derbys. for £840.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, no. 2594. In 1653, he purchased lands in Markeaton and Mackworth, Derbys. for £1,000. In 1655, purchased manor and castle of Mackworth for £1,300.C. Kerry, ‘Mackworth: its castle and owners’, Jnl. of the Derbys. Arch. and Natural Hist. Soc. xi. 6. Betw. 1660 and 1670, purchased property in Allestree, Little Eaton and Markeaton.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 1720, 3075. By 1664, owned a house of 22 hearths at Kedleston.Derbys. Hearth Tax Assessments 1662-70 ed. D. G. Edwards (Derbys. Rec. Soc. vii), 13. In 1664, purchased lands in Repton, Derbys.S.C. Newton, ‘The gentry of Derbys. in the seventeenth century’, Derbys. Arch. Jnl. lxxxvi. 17. In 1667, purchased remainder of a 99 year lease of manors of Elvaston and Thulston, Derbys. for £1,000.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, no. 3809. In 1669, he claimed to have lent out over £18,000.Nottingham Univ. Lib. Pw 1/104. In 1673, purchased manors of Elvaston and Thulston and divers messuages and lands in Alvaston, Booton, Borrowash, Elvaston, Ockbrook, Spondon and Thulston, Derbys.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 1654, 3830-1, 4038, 5850. In 1679, purchased a messuage and several closes in Littleover, Derbys.Derby Local Studies Lib. Deeds, nos. 6041, 6066. Will referred to lands in Breedon on the Hill, Leics.PROB11/386, f. 145v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Caesar’s Buildings, Middle Temple Lane, Mdx. (1645).HMC 9th Rep. ii. 393.

Religion

presented Walter Taylor to rectory of Kedleston, Derbys. 1634.IND1/17003, p. 27.

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