Family and Education
b. 4 May 1631, 1st s. of William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton of Laghlin [I], and Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Goring†, 1st earl of Norwich.Add. 4280, f. 103; CP; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 1, p. 89. educ. Illustrious Acad. Breda 1646-52.Aubrey, Brief Lives, i. 121; R. Vaughan, The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell (1838), ii. 383. m. 21 Oct. 1658, Frances (bur. 12 Sept. 1680), da. and coh. of Francis, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, 3s.St Margaret Pattens, London par. reg.; CP; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 1, p. 89. suc. fa. as 3rd baron Apr. 1664. d. 17 Mar. 1680.CP.
Offices Held
Local: j.p. Cheshire ?-1 Oct. 1659.
Academic: FRS, 22 Apr. 1663–d.
Central: chairman, public accts. commission, 12 Dec. 1667–70.
Parlimentarian
: of Dean’s Yard, Westminster and Brereton Hall, Cheshire., Brereton.
Likenesses
Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, c.1640-60.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
BRERETON, William (1631-80), of Dean’s Yard, Westminster, and Brereton Hall, Brereton, Cheshire.
Will
admon. 11 Dec. 1686, 18 May 1697.CP.
Estates
in 1634, family estate incl. at least 7 manors and 5 advowsons in Cheshire.Cheshire RO, DTD/1/1; DTD/31/3. In 1646, Brereton’s father’s estate was valued at £1,400 p.a.CCC 1229. In 1653, family estate incl. barony, manor and castle of Malpas; manors of Agden, Bradley, Caldecott, Cuddington, Duckington, Great and Little Edge, Oldcastle and Tilston; and property in Alsager, Barton, Bickley, Chidlow, Chorlton, Farndon, Harthill, Horton, Macefen, Newton juxta Malpas, Nether and Over Fullwich, Shocklach, Stockton, Tushingham and Wigland, Cheshire.E214/734. In 1654, Brereton and his father mortgaged manor of Brereton, excluding Brereton Hall, for £3,000.Cheshire RO, DTD/1/2. By 1673, he owned a house of 15 hearths in Westminster.CTB iii. 915. In 1674, he sold barony of Malpas for £19,200.Cheshire RO, DTD/2/1; DTD/2/2-3; DTD/31/5-6; DTD/32/5-8; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 1, p. 86.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Isleworth, Mdx. (1652).Vaughan, Protectorate, ii. 385.
Religion
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