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bap. 24 Jan. 1622, 2nd s. of Jeffrey Wildman (bur. Mar. 1676) of Wymondham, Norf., and 1st w. Margaret Poaker alias Saddler (bur. 24 Jan. 1622) of ?Wymondham.Wymondham par. reg.; Wreningham, Norf. par. reg.; PROB11/527, f. 92. educ. Corpus Christi, Camb. Easter 1637, BA 1641, MA 1644.Al. Cant. m. (1) bef. 1646, ?Dorothy, da. of Michael Whitefoot of Hapton, Norf. 1s. 1ch. (d.v.p.);PROB11/133, f. 511v; PROB11/225, f. 129; PROB11/527, f. 92; Al. Ox. iv. 1632. (2) by Oct. 1653, Lucy (d. 6 Dec. 1692), da. of Anthony Richmond of Idstone, Ashbury, Berks. s.p.Som. RO, DD/GB/150/1; Richmond Fam. Recs. ed. H.I. Richmond (1938), iii. 134-5. Kntd. 29 Oct. 1692.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 267. d. 1 June 1693.MI Shrivenham, Berks.; Wood, Life and Times, iii. 424.
Offices Held

Military: maj. of ? (parlian.) by Dec. 1650–?CJ vi. 505b; M. Ashley, John Wildman: Plotter and Postmaster (1947), 9, 70. Col. militia horse, Berks. by Jan. 1660–?CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 321.

Local: commr. Westminster militia, 28 June 1659; militia, Berks. 26 July 1659; assessment, Westminster 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O. Berks. 1679, 1689 – d.; Mdx. 1679; Wilts. 1689; London 1690.SR. J.p. Mdx. 1689–d.‘John Wildman’, HP Commons 1660–90. Dep. lt. 6 Apr. 1689–d.CSP Dom. 1689–90, pp. 53–4.

Central: dep. postmaster-gen. 12 Apr. 1689-Feb. 1691.CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 59; 1690–1, p. 283; CTB ix. 1037.

Civic: freeman, Skinners’ Co. by 1690–d.Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 185. Alderman, London 13 Jan. 1690–d.Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 185; ii. 117.

Parlimentarian
WILDMAN, John I (c.1624-93), of Becket House, Shrivenham, Berks. and St. Giles in the Fields, Mdx.
: Bucks., Shrivenham and Westminster.
Likenesses

Likenesses: ?miniature, J. Hoskins, 1647;V. and A. etching, W. Hollar, 1653.BM.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WILDMAN, John (1622-93), of Beckett House, Shrivenham, Bucks. and Westminster.

Will
14 Oct. 1670, admon. 30 May 1712.PROB11/527, f. 91.
Estates
in 1652-7, Henry Marten* sold or mortgaged to Wildman manors of Beckett, Nether and Over Inglesham and Shrivenham Salop, Claycourt and Stalpits, Berks. for at least £9,300.C6/141/116; Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 9 (indenture 22 Dec. 1652); box 48 (indenture 13 Dec. 1652); Berks. RO, D/EZ7/59; D/EEl/E35; D. Lysons, S. Lysons, Magna Britannia: Berks. (1813), 366; VCH Berks. iv. 535. In 1653, Marten sold lease of the rectory and advowson of Ashbury, Berks. to Wildman for £1,700.Brotherton Lib. ML mss, box 16 (Billingsley v. Poeton case ppr.). In 1653, Wildman purchased forfeited estates in Distaff Lane, St Augustine, London.SP46/108, f. 362; CCC 1214. In 1656, purchased an estate in Horton, Som. for £1,000.Som RO, DD/GB/148/21. Before the Restoration, estate in Shrivenham and in Hapton and Wreningham, Norf. valued at £1,833.Berks. RO, D/EE1/E35; D/ELS/T2/3. In 1670, estate inc. manors of Beckett, Shrivenham Salop, Claycourt and Stalpits; a capital messuage, tenements and land in Beckett; parsonage of, and closes in, Ashbury; lease of a tenement in Idstone, Berks.; lease (with Sir Robert Clayton†) of parsonages of Preston Candover and Nutley and of a farm and tenement in Nutley, Hants; and property in Florden, Hapton and Wreningham, Norf.PROB11/527, ff. 91-2.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
The Saracen’s Head, Friday Street, London (1648);G. Masterson, The Triumph Stain’d (1648), 13 (E.426.18). St Martin-in-the Fields, Westminster (1654);Brotherton Lib. Marten Loder mss, box 66, unfol.; CCC 2405. The Dolphin, Tower Street, London (1654).TSP iii. 147-8.
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