STANDISH, Thomas (c.1593-1642), of Duxbury Hall, Chorley, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c. 1593, 1st s. of Alexander Standish of Duxbury Hall, and w. Alice, da. of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever, Middleton, Lancs.St Peter, Bolton, Lancs. par. reg.; Whalley, Lancs. par. reg. (bap. of Alexander’s second child, 28 Sept. 1594); Lancs. IPM ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvii), 400; Foster, Lancs. Peds. educ. Queens’, Camb. 7 Feb. 1608;Al. Cant. G. Inn 3 Feb. 1614;G. Inn Admiss. 133. travelled abroad c.1623-4.APC 1623-5, p. 118; CSP Dom. 1625-6, p. 162. m. (1) 7 Oct. 1615, Anne (bur. 5 May 1623), da. of Sir Thomas Wingfield of Letheringham, Suff. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 27 Jan. 1625, Anne, da. of ?Christopher Whittingham of London and Suff., wid. of one Catlyn of ?Southampton, Hants, 3s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Ashley, Staffs. par. reg.; Standish, Lancs. par. reg.; St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster; Lancs. RO, DP/397/21/16; Chorley Par. Regs. ed. E. McKnight, H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxxiii), 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 86, 89, 100, 105; Kensington (Harl. Soc. Reg. xvi), 68; Foster, Lancs. Peds.; Vis. Lancs. 1613 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxii), 71. suc. fa. 18 June 1622.Lancs. IPM ed. Rylands, 399. bur. 29 Oct. 1642 29 Oct. 1642.Chorley Par. Regs. ed. McKnight, Brierley, 100.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston by 1602–?d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 55, 78. Wigan by 1628–?d.;Sinclair, Wigan, i. 197. Liverpool by July 1629–?d.Chandler, Liverpool, 150.

Local: prothonotary clerk of Common Bench, duchy of Lancaster 18 June 1608–18 June 1635.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 110. J.p. Lancs. 1624–11 July 1642.APC 1625–6, p. 203; D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 66. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 30. swans, midland cos. and Welsh borders 27 July 1627;C181/3, f. 227v. Greenwax revenues, duchy of Lancaster 1 Dec. 1628.Lancs. RO, DDKE/5/111. Capt. militia ft. by Nov. 1636–?SP16/337/81i, f. 168. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642.SR. Dep. lt. 4 July 1642–d.CJ ii. 649a; LJ v. 178b.

Parlimentarian

STANDISH, Thomas (c.1594-1642), of Duxbury, Lancs.

: of Duxbury Hall, Lancs., Chorley.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

STANDISH, Thomas (c.1593-1642), of Duxbury Hall, Chorley, Lancs.

Will

4 Oct. 1642, pr. 2 Dec. 1642.Lancs. RO, WCW, will and inventory of T. Standish 1642.

Estates

in 1622, inherited manors of Duxbury, Heapey, Heath Charnock and Whittle-le-Woods; reversion of manor of Anlezargh, with messuages and water-mills; and property in Burrow, Chorley, Goosnargh, Lancaster, Langtree, Longton, Scotforth, Standish and Worthington, Lancs.Lancs. IPM ed. Rylands, 397-400; VCH Lancs. vi. 33, 51, 213. At his d. estate inc. manors of Anlezargh, Duxbury, Heapey, Heath Charnock and Whittle-le-Woods and Duxbury Hall and Bradley Hall, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DP/502/1/10/2; Lancs. RO, WCW, will and inventory of Thomas Standish 1642.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

St Martin-in-the Fields, Westminster (at least 1635-41) the Strand, near the New Exchange (1641).St Martin-in-the-Fields par. reg.; Procs. LP vi. 352-3.

Religion

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