Family and Education
bap. 6 July 1610, 1st s. of Robert Forth, brazier, of Standish Gate, Wigan, Lancs., and Catherine, da. of William Gardiner of Wigan.Wigan ed. J. Arrowsmith (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. iv), 4, 77; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xcii), 66. educ. appr. Mercer, London 19 June 1629.Recs. of London’s Livery Companies Online. m. (1) Sarah (bur. 10 Sept. 1644), da. of John Fowle, merchant, of London, 1da.; (2) 8 Sept. 1645, Sarah (bur. 27 Mar. 1666), da. of William Essington, merchant, of London, s.p.; (3) lic. 10 Oct. 1667, Amy, da. of John Gurdon* of Assington, Suff., s.p.St Lawrence Jewry, St Dunstan in the East, London par. regs.; Soc. Gen. Boyd’s Inhabitants of London, no. 10542; Vis. London, 66; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxiv), 95; London Mar. Lics. ed Foster, 502; HMC 6th Rep. 64; Calamy Revised, 293. suc. fa. Nov. 1622;Wigan ed. Arrowsmith, 244. bur. 20 Feb. 1676 20 Feb. 1676.St Mary Aldermanbury (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxii), 189.
Offices Held
Mercantile: member, Levant Co. 1 Sept. 1642–?d.;
Local: commr. sewers, Kent 17 July 1657.
Parlimentarian
: of London.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
FORTH, Hugh (1610-76), of London.
Will
admon. 13 May 1676, 19 Dec. 1682.PROB6/51, f. 54; PROB6/57, f. 173.
Estates
in 1631, inherited messuages and other property in Wigan (half of this estate he inherited in reversion after d. of his mo.).Lancs. RO, WCW, will of Robert Forth 1622. In about 1648, purchased manor of Westcombe, Greenwich, and quickly sold it to Theophilus Biddulph*.Hasted, Kent, i. 391.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
house of Robert Gardiner, Basinghall Street, London (1641, 1646).E179/252/2; CCC 1070.
Religion
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