WANDESFORD, John (1593-1665), of Kirklington, Yorks. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Family and Education

bap. 16 Dec. 1593, 2nd s. of Sir George Wandesford (d. 1612) of Kirklington, and Catherine, da. of Ralph Hansby of Beverley, Yorks.; bro. of Christopher Wandesford†.T. Comber, Mems. of the Life and Death of Lord Deputy Wandesforde (1778), 1, 18. educ. Well g.s.;Comber, Wandesforde, 7, 23. Camb. Univ.;Comber, Wandesforde, 23. G. Inn 28 Feb. 1613, called 30 May 1617;G. Inn Admiss. 132; PBG Inn, i. 226. DCL, Oxf. 1 Nov. 1642.Al. Ox. d. unm. bur. 21 Jan. 1665 21 Jan. 1665.Comber, Wandesforde, 63; St Andrew Holborn, par. reg.

Offices Held

Mercantile: freeman, Levant Co. 9 Jan. 1630.SP105/148, f. 214.

Diplomatic: consul, Aleppo 3 Mar. 1630-May 1639.SP105/148, f. 217v; SP110/54, f. 119; A. C. Wood, A Hist. of the Levant Co. (1935), 253.

Central: commr. ordnance (roy.), 1642–6;Docquets of Letters Patent, ed. Black, 150, 187, 405; Royalist Ordnance Pprs. ed. Roy, i. 17–19. loyal and indigent officers, 1662.SR.

Local: commr. excise (roy.) Oxon., Northants., Warws., Bucks. and Berks. 20 Feb. 1645;Docquets of Letters Patent, ed. Black, 259. corporations, York 19 Feb. 1662;HMC 8th Rep. pt. 1 (1881), 275. hackney coaches, London and Westminster 27 May 1662,C181/7, p. 151. subsidy, Mdx. 1663.SR.

Parlimentarian

WANDESFORD, John (1593-1665), of Kirklington, Yorks. and Gray’s Inn, London

: of Kirklington, Yorks. and Mdx., Gray’s Inn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WANDESFORD, John (1593-1665), of Kirklington, Yorks. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Will

not found.

Estates

Wandesford and Sir George Strode were granted Marylebone Manor and Park, Mdx, by Charles I, 6 May 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent, ed. Black, 405.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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