Family and Education
b. c. 1592, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Francis Knollys I*.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 103. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 20 Apr. 1604 ‘aged 12’, BA 23 Jan. 1607;Al. Ox. M. Temple 30 June 1610.M. Temple Admiss. i. 95. m. (1) 26 Dec. 1611, Ellen (bur. 7 Oct. 1629), da. and h. of Richard Milles of Lower Winchendon, Bucks. 3s. (at least 1 d.v.p.);St Laurence, Reading par. reg.; C. Coates, The Hist. and Antiquities of Reading (1802), 230; Vis. Berks. i. 103. (2) 8 Aug. 1633, Cicely (bur. 12 Sept. 1677), da. of Richard Browne of Betchworth Castle, Kent, wid. of Robert Edolph (d.1631) of St Anne, Blackfriars, London and Hinxhill, Kent, ?s.p.London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 806; P. Parsons, Monuments and Painted Glass (Canterbury, 1794), 49; Coates, Reading, 231, 385. Kntd. by 5 Mar. 1623.Reading Recs. ii. 117. bur. 17 May 1643.St Laurence, Reading par. reg.; Coates, Reading, 230.
Offices Held
Local: commr. sewers, River Kennet, Berks. 1638;
: of Abbey House, Berks., Reading.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
KNOLLYS, Sir Francis II (c.1592-1643), of Abbey House, Reading, Berks.
Will
not found.
Estates
predeceased his fa. but probably given control of family estates some time before his d.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
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