JERMYN, Henry (1605-84), of Rushbrooke, Suff. and Whitehall, Westminster.

Family and Education

bap. 29 Mar. 1605, 4th but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Thomas Jermyn* (d. 1645) and his 1st w. Catherine, da. of Sir William Killigrew†; bro. of Thomas* and Robert†.St Margaret Lothbury, London par. reg.; HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Henry Jermyn’. educ. travelled abroad 1618;APC, 1618-19, p. 103. embassy, Madrid by 1623;Harl. 1581, f. 352. unm. (1 child illegit.). cr. Baron Jermyn of St Edmundsbury 8 Sept. 1643,C231/3, p. 35. earl of St Albans 27 Apr. 1660;Add. Ch. 13587. KG 1672.Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 36. d. 2 Jan. 1684.Morrice, Entring bk. ii. 436; Bodl. Carte 216, f. 401.

Offices Held

Court: gent. usher, privy chamber to Henrietta Maria by 1627–39;CSP Ven. 1626–8, p. 298; E101/438/7. master of horse, 1639-Jan. 1644;HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, vi. 180; Dorset RO, D/FSI Box 267, copies of official documents, 1660–4, unfol. ld. chamberlain, Jan. 1644-Sept.1669.HMC 4th Rep. 308. Executor and trustee for Henrietta Maria, Aug. 1669-aft. Mar. 1675.CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 451; CTB, iv. 707. Jt.-commr. French estates of Henrietta Maria, 1669.CSP Dom. 1668–9, pp. 503–4; Bell, Handlist, 118. Ld. chamberlain to Charles II, 1671–4.HMC Lindsey, 196; Sainty and Bucholz, Royal Household, i. 1, 162.

Diplomatic: envoy, Paris 1627, 1632, 1638, 1639.CSP Ven. 1626–8, pp. 297–8, 335; 1636–9, pp. 449, 456, 466, 500–1; CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 420; C115/M35/8423.; HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, vi. 160; HMC Rutland, iv. 505. Amb. extraordinary (roy.), France and United Provinces Feb. 1645;G.M. Bell, A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives (1990), 114. amb. extraordinary, France 1660 – 61, 1662, 1666, 1667 – 68, 1669.SO3/13, unfol.; Bell, Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives, 115–18.

Local: capt. militia, Jersey 1628–9.APC 1628–9, pp. 282, 320. Commr. survey, St James’s bailiwick 1640;CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 208. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 5 July 1660-aft. Aug. 1671;C181/7, pp. 3, 588. London 3 June 1671-aft. Dec. 1672;C181/7, p. 580, 630. Home, Midland, Norf., Northern, Oxf., Western circs. 23 June 1671-aft. Feb. 1673;C181/7, pp. 591, 641. sewers, Norf., Suff. and I. of Ely 7 Sept. 1660-aft. Dec. 1669;C181/7, pp. 40, 522. Bedford Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 147. Kent 15 Apr. 1667;C181/7, p. 395. Mdx. and Westminster 10 Aug. 1671-aft. Jan. 1673.C181/7, pp. 586, 632. J.p. Mdx., Suff. by Oct. 1660–?d.;C220/9/4, ff. 52, 80. Camb. Univ. and town 21 Mar.-aft. July 1672;C181/7, pp. 619, 623. St Albans borough and liberty 21 Mar. 1672.C181/7, p. 621. Commr. highway repairs, London and Westminster 8 May 1662;C181/7, p. 143. all cos. England 10 Apr. 1663.C181/7, p. 198. Kpr. Greenwich House, Kent 1662. Steward and bailiff, Sayes Ct. Deptford, Kent 1662.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 535. Commr. gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 3 June 1671-aft. Dec. 1672.C181/7, pp. 580, 630.

Civic: freeman, Portsmouth 1628.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 350. High steward, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surr. 1671–d.Manning and Bray, Surr. i. 342; Kingston Hist. Centre, KB 1/1, p. 46.

Central: Jt.-registrar, ct. of chancery, c. 1640 – Dec. 1643, Sept. 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 206; C66/2822, mm. 20–21; Northants. RO, FH2075X; Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 205; Bodl. Tanner 98, f. 16; CJ iii. 326b; LJ vi. 330b; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 213; 1676–7, p. 16; Add. Ch. 70778; CTB v. 88. PC (roy.), c.1651–79.Clarendon, Hist. v. 227. Commr. prizes, 1664-aft. 1666.CSP Dom. Add. 1660–85, p. 119; CSP Dom. 1666–7, p. 355.

Military: col. of horse (roy.), queen’s lifeguard by Feb. 1643-July 1644.P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers in Eng. and Wales (1981), 211; Toynbee and Young, Strangers in Oxford, 26. Gov. Jersey Jan. 1645-aft. July 1651, June 1660 – Aug. 1663, July 1664-Dec. 1665.Actes des Etats de L’Ile de Jersey 1606–1651 (Société Jersiaise, xiv), 70–4, 131; ‘Some letters of Charles II to Jersey’, Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise, xv. 426; Eg. 2980, f. 23; Actes des Etats de L’Ile de Jersey 1660–1675 (Société Jersiaise, xv), 3n, 10; CSP Dom. 1670, pp. 664, 682, 684, 693, 705–6; 1673–5, p. 561; 1665–6, p. 119; HMC Heathcote, 227; A.R.J.S. Adolph, ‘Henry Jermyn, (1605–1684), Earl of St Alban, K.G., governor of Jersey’, Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise, xxvii. 636–52. Capt. Jersey garrison, 1660–5.CTB i. 88; Dalton, Army Lists, i. 11.

Parlimentarian

JERMYN, Henry (c.1605-1684), of Rushbrooke, Suff. and Whitehall

: of Rushbrooke, Suff. and Westminster., Whitehall.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, studio of A. Van Dyck, c.1639;Private colln. oil on canvas, manner of A. Van Dyck;NT, Ickworth. oil on canvas, P. Lely and studio, 1674.;NT, Kedleston. miniature, unknown, c.1675;Royal Colln. line engraving, unknown.NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

JERMYN, Henry (1605-84), of Rushbrooke, Suff. and Whitehall, Westminster.

Will

6 Dec. 1681, pr. 3 Mar. 1684.PROB11/375/312; S.H.A. Hervey, Rushbrook Par. Reg. (Woodbridge, 1903), 157-9.

Estates

owned house in Southgate St., Bury St Edmunds 1667;Suff. RO (Bury), D6/2/1. granted freehold on part of St James’s Field, Mdx. in 1665, which he then developed as St James’s Square.A.I. Dasent, The History of St James’s Square (1895), 265-79.

Oxford 1644

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