WHITAKER, William (c.1580-1646), of the Middle Temple, London, and Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Family and Education

b. c. 1580, 1st s. of Henry Whitaker† of Westbury, Wilts., and Judith, da. of William Hawkins of Plymouth, Devon.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 628. educ. Broadgates Hall, Oxf. 29 Feb. 1600, ‘aged 19’; M. Temple, 23 Apr. 1602.Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 79. m. 30 Mar. 1619, Honora (d. 1677), da. of Edward Hooper of Boveridge, Cranborne, Dorset, 3s. 1da. suc. fa. 1589.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 628. d. 3 Oct. 1646.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 50.

Offices Held

Legal: called, M Temple 22 Nov. 1611;M. Temple Admiss. i. 79. autumn reader, 1627; bencher, 1627;MTR ii. 722. treas. Oct. 1635-Oct. 1637.MTR ii. 839, 857–8.

Civic: recorder, Shaftesbury 1627–d.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 17.

Local: j.p. Dorset July 1629–d.Dorset RO, QSM/1/1, p. 301; Dorset QS Order Bk. ed. T. Hearing and S. Bridges (Dorset Rec. Soc. xiv), 445. Commr. sewers, 29 June 1638;C181/5, f. 113. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644;SR; A. and O. oyer and terminer for piracy, 26 Feb. 1642;C181/5, ff. 226v-7. commr. for Dorset, 1 July 1644.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

WHITAKER, William (c.1580-1646), of the Middle Temple, London and Shaftesbury, Dorset

: London and Dorset., Shaftesbury.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WHITAKER, William (c.1580-1646), of the Middle Temple, London, and Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Will

23 Mar. 1641 (altered 10 Sept. 1646), pr. 9 Nov. 1646.PROB11/198/72.

Estates

property in Shaftesbury, and estate at Motcombe, near Gillingham, by 1620s.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 17, 628-9.

Oxford 1644

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