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Family and Education
b. 2 Dec. 1612, 3rd. s. of Charles Wilmot† of Scotland Yard, Westminster (d. betw. 29 June 1643-Apr. 1644) and 1st. w. Sarah, da. of Sir Henry Anderson of London, alderman and grocer. m. (1) 21 Aug. 1633, Frances, da. of Sir George Morton of Milborne St. Andrew and Clenston, Winterborne Clenston, Dorset, 1s. d.v.p. (2) aft. 23 July 1639, Anne (bur. 18 Mar. 1696), da. of Sir John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts., wid. of Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley, Oxon, 1s. cr. 29 June 1643 Baron Wilmot of Adderbury. suc. fa. as Viscount Wilmot of Athlone [I], by Apr. 1644; cr. 13 Dec. 1652 1st earl of Rochester. d. 19 Feb. 1658.CP; O. Barron, ‘The Wild Wilmots’, The Ancestor xi. 22-3; CSP Dom. 1657-8, pp. 297, 300; Wood, Life and Times, ii. 492.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse, Holland 1635–7. 1 Apr. 1639CP. Commry.-gen. of horse, regt. of Henry Rich†, 1st earl of Holland, royal army by; rank of col. by Nov. 1640, confirmed Aug.1642. Aug. 1642E351/292, 293; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 16; Clarendon, Hist. ii. 253, 275. Col. of horse (roy.),; lt.-gen. by Nov. 1642;Clarendon, Hist. ii. 402. gen. by Apr. 1644;Clarendon, Hist. iii. 345. lt.-gen. under William Cavendish†, 1st marquess of Newcastle, 14 Aug. 1648.HMC Pepys, 283. Field marshal gen. army of Charles Stuart, 15 Sept. 1654;Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy, 132. col. of ft. army of Charles Stuart, Flanders 1656.Clarendon, Hist. vi. 44.

Central: member, council of war, 9 Apr. 1640.CSP Dom. 1640, p. 16. PC by 21 May 1649.HMC Portland, ii. 139.

Irish: jt. pres. Connaught 19 Apr. 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 389–90.

Court: gent. of bedchamber to prince of Wales by 12 Nov. 1644; to Charles Stuart by Feb. 1649.Lttr. Bks. of Sir Samuel Luke, 77; HMC Pepys, 255.

Diplomatic: Royal envoy to Charles IV, duke of Lorraine by 13 May 1652;Nicholas Pprs. i. 300. to diet of Empire at Regensburg (Ratisbon), Dec. 1652-aft. Nov. 1653;HMC 5th Rep. 183; Syllabus of Rymer’s Foedera ed. T.D. Hardy ii. 907, 911. to elector of Brandenburg, 1654; to Denmark, 1655.CP.

Parlimentarian
WILMOT, Henry (1612-58), of Adderbury, Oxon.
: of Adderbury, Oxon.
Likenesses

Likenesses: wash drawing, W.N. Gardiner, late eighteenth or early nineteenth century;Ashmolean Museum, Oxf. pencil drawing, G.P. Harding, nineteenth century.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WILMOT, Henry (1612-58), of Adderbury, Oxon.

Will
not found.
Estates
inherited from fa. £200 p.a. for life from lands in Oxon., share of lease in houses near Scotland Yard, and residue of estate of fa.PROB11/240, f. 313v. At d., estate at Adderbury, part freehold, part leased for lives from bishop of Winchester; Wilmot House, Scotland Yard, London;HMC Lords n.s. iv, 172. Long Marston manor, Tring, Herts.VCH Herts. ii. 287.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
Religion
held advowson of Puttenham, Herts., 1637.VCH Herts. ii. 264.
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