SELDEN, John (1584-1654), of Inner Temple and Whitefriars, London.

Family and Education

b. 16 Dec. 1584, 1st s. of John Selden of Salvington, West Tarring, Suss. and Margaret, da. and h. of Thomas Baker of Rustington, Suss.Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 219, 223; Ath. Ox. iii. 366-7. educ. Chichester sch.; Hart Hall, Oxf. 24 Oct. 1600; Clifford’s Inn, 1602; I. Temple 17 May 1604.Ath. Ox. iii. 367; Al. Ox.; I. Temple database. ?m. ?; aft. 1639, Elizabeth (d. 7 Dec. 1651), da. of Gilbert Talbot, 7th earl of Shrewsbury, and wid. of Sir Henry Grey†, 8th earl of Kent (d. 21 Nov. 1639).Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 220-1; CP. suc. fa. by 1615.D.S. Berkowitz, John Selden’s Formative Years (1988), 14. d. 30 Nov. 1654.Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 221-2; CITR ii. 364.

Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 14 June 1612; bencher, 3 Nov. 1633–d.CITR ii. 67, 208. Counsel, Virg. Co. 1620-c.1622.Recs. of Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 395; ii. 98.

Household: steward to 8th earl of Kent, c.1623–39.Ath. Ox. iii. 377; Berkowitz, Selden’s Formative Years, 65.

Central: member, Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643;A. and O. cttee. for examinations, 1 Aug. 1643.CJ iii. 189b. Kpr. of recs. Tower of London, 20 Nov. 1643-by 6 Aug. 1651.A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 476; CJ iii. 291a; vi. 617b-618a. Member, cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for sequestrations, 7 Aug. 1644; LJ vi. 663a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 19 Nov. 1644;CJ iii. 699b. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Apr. 1645. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O.

Local: gov. Charterhouse hosp. London, 1645–52. 23 June 1647LMA, Acc/1876/G/02/02, ff. 72, 141. Commr. assessment, Oxf. Univ. and city,, 16 Feb. 1648.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

SELDEN, John (1584-1654), of Wrest, Beds. and the Inner Temple, London

: of Inner Temple and London., Whitefriars.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1644;Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. oil on canvas, attrib. P. Lely;Bodl. oil on canvas, studio of P. Lely;Ashmolean Museum, Oxf. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely;Bodl. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely;NPG. oil on canvas, unknown;NPG. oil on canvas, unknown;Exeter Coll. Oxf. line engraving, M. Burghers;NPG. line engraving, unknown, 1654;E. Pococke, Contextio Gemmarum (1654–6), i. frontispiece. line engraving, J. Chantry, 1661;BM; NPG. line engraving, F.H. van Hove, 1677;BM; NPG. line engraving, R. White, 1682;J. Selden, The Reverse or the Back-face of the English Janus (1682), frontispiece. line engraving, unknown.NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SELDEN, John (1584-1654), of Inner Temple and Whitefriars, London.

Will

11 June 1653, pr. 14 Feb. 1655.Bodl. Selden supra 110, ff. 43 seq.

Estates

manor of Cheadle and other lands in Staffs.; lands in Dudmandale, Lincs.; leases in Beds. and Leics.Bodl. Selden supra 110, ff. 43 seq.; Oxford Univ. Archives, WPα/15.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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