BIDDULPH, Theophilus (c. 1612-83), of Cheapside, London and Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.

Family and Education

b. c. 1612, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Michael Biddulph* of Elmhurst, Staffs. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Skeffington, 1st bt. of Fisherwick; bro. of Michael Biddulph I†.Staffs. Parl. Hist. ed. Wedgwood (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), ii. 129-30. educ. apprentice Draper Apr. 1628.Roll of the Drapers’ Co. ed. P. Boyd (1934), 18. m. 10 May 1641, Susanna (d. 1702), da. of Zachary Highlord, Skinner and alderman, of Hart Street, London and Morden, Surr., 6s. (4 d.v.p.), 4 da. (2 d.v.p.), 1 other ch. (d.v.p.).Staffs. Parl. Hist. ii. 129-30; S. Shaw, Hist. of Staffs. (1798) i. 352; The Regs. of Morden, Surr., ed. F. Clayton (1901), 6; GL, St Mary Colechurch par. reg (MS 4438), St Lawrence Jewry par. reg. (MS 6975). Kntd. 16 May 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 226. cr. bt. 2 Nov. 1664.CB. suc. bro. Nov. 1666. d. 25 Mar. 1683.Staffs. Parl. Hist. ii. 129-30.

Offices Held

Mercantile: freeman, Drapers’ Co. 1636; liveryman, 1644 – 50; asst. 1654 – d.; master, 1657–8.A.H. Johnson, Hist. of Drapers’ Co. (Oxford, 1914) iv. 422, 447, 454. Trustee, Irish Adventure, London 1 Aug. 1642.CSP Ire. Adv. 309. Freeman, E.I. Co. 18 Aug. 1647; member, cttee. 2 July 1657–62.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co., ed. Sainsbury, 1644–9, p. 217; 1655–9, pp. 153, 197, 268, 333; 1660–3, pp. 23, 104.

Civic: alderman, London 29–31 July 1651;Aldermen of London i. 50. common cllr. Dec. 1654–65; auditor, 1655–7.J.R. Woodhead, Rulers of London, 1660–89 (1965), 30; D.C. Elliot, ‘Elections to the Common Council of the City of London, 21 Dec. 1659’, Guildhall Studies in London Hist. iv. 170, 175, 184.

Local: commr. assessment, London 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Kent, Staffs. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Lichfield 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Warws. 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sewers, Kent 17 June 1657, 18 Sept. 1660-aft. June 1671;C181/6, pp. 228; C181/7, pp. 51, 579. London 13 Aug. 1657, 24 July 1662;C181/6, p. 257; C181/7, p. 164. Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657;C181/6, p. 264. oyer and terminer, London 19 May 1659 – 27 Nov. 1666; gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 19 May 1659–27 Nov. 1666;C181/6, p. 357; C181/7, pp. 2, 336. London militia, 7 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; HMC Leyborne-Popham, 168. militia, Kent 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mar. 1660 – July 1681; Staffs. June 1668–?82.A Perfect List (1660), 24; C231/7, p. 330; C231/8, p. 52. Commr. poll tax, Kent, London 1660.SR. Member, corporation for propagation of the gospel in New England, 17 May 1661.PC2/55, p. 217. Dep. gov. Irish Soc. 1662–3.Johnson, Hist. of Drapers iii. 266. Commr. subsidy, Kent, London, Staffs. 1663;SR. recusants, Kent, Staffs. 1675.CTB iv. 697, 788.

Central: commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a.

Parlimentarian

BIDDULPH, Sir Theophilus (c.1612-83), of Austin Friars, London and Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.

: of Cheapside, London and Westcombe Park, Kent., Greenwich.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BIDDULPH, Theophilus (c. 1612-83), of Cheapside, London and Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.

Will

30 Apr. 1681, pr. 8 May 1683.PROB11/373/44.

Estates

purchased Westcombe manor, Greenwich, June 1650;Hasted’s Hist. of Kent: Part One - the Hundred of Blackheath, ed. H.H. Drake (1886), 53. Frodshall manor, Staffs., c.1660; inherited Elsmshurst St Chad manor from bro.;S. Erdeswick, Surv. of Staffs. (1844), 52, 304-5. purchased manors of Lapley and Aston, 1663;VCH Staffs. iv. 147. at d. owned manor of Frankton, Warws.PROB11/373/44.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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