WYLDE, Edmund (1618-95), of Droitwich and Kempsey, Worcs., Glazeley, Salop, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Beds., Inner Temple and Bloomsbury, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 10 Oct. 1618, 1st s. of Sir Edmund Wylde of Kempsey, Worcs. and Glazeley, Salop, and Dorothy, da. of Sir Francis Clarke of Houghton Conquest, Beds.Vis. Worcs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. xc), 105; Nash, Collections ii. 330; J. Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 316; Beds. Notes and Queries, i. 95, 97. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 29 Nov. 1633; I. Temple 28 Oct. 1634, called 13 Nov. 1644.Al. Ox.; I. Temple database; CITR 271. unm. suc. fa. 3 Apr. 1620. d. 15 Dec. 1695.Nash, Collections, ii. 330; Register of Deuxhill and Glazeley ed. T.R. Horton (1906), 3.

Offices Held

Civic: common burgess, Droitwich by 1634–?d.Worcs. Archives, 261.4/BA 1006/33/640.

Local: commr. assessment, Worcs. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 14 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Beds., Westminster, Salop 26 Jan.1660; militia, Worcs. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Beds., Salop 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Essex 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Worcs. by Feb. 1650-c.Apr. 1653, by Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/3, f. 67v; C193/13/4, f. 106v; C193/13/5, f. 113v; CUL, MS Dd.VIII.1; A Perfect List (1660). Salop 9 Mar. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 179; C193/13/4, f. 81v. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 10, 374. Westminster militia, 28 June 1659.A. and O. Sheriff, Beds. 5 Nov. 1660.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 4.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O.

Academic: FRS, 16 Jan. 1661.M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700 (Chalfont St Giles, 1982), 168.

Parlimentarian

WYLDE, Edmund (1618-95), of Droitwich and Kempsey, Worcs., Glazeley, Salop, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Beds., Inner Temple and Bloomsbury, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

: of Droitwich and Worcs., The Grove, Beds., Kempsey, Salop and Mdx., Bloomsbury.

Likenesses

MI: slate floor slab, Glazeley.J.W. Turner, 'A Talent for Friendship. Edmund Wylde of Houghton Conquest', Beds. Magazine, iii. 108.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WYLDE, Edmund (1618-95), of Droitwich and Kempsey, Worcs., Glazeley, Salop, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Beds., Inner Temple and Bloomsbury, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will

22 Oct. 1691, pr. 2 Jan. 1696.PROB11/435, f. 149.

Estates

at d., Great Totham, Cibreaux manors, Essex; lands at Fulwell Hatch, Barking, Ilford, Woodford, Waltham Forest, Essex; Glazeley manor, Endon Burnell manor, Chetton, Salop; Beltons and Hunwell manors, Houghton Conquest, Beds.; lands in Gressenhall, Langham and Starning, Norf.; at least 10 salt bullaries, Droitwich, Worcs.PROB11/435, f. 149.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Bloomsbury, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. at d.PROB11/435, f. 149.

Religion

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