DANVERS alias VILLIERS, Robert (1624-75), of Wycombe, Bucks. and Knighton, Rad.

Family and Education

b. 1624 and; bap. 20 Oct. 1624 (as Robert Wright), illegit. s. of Frances (bur. 4 June 1645), da. of Sir Edward Coke† and w. of John Villiers (d. 18 Feb. 1658), 1st Viscount Purbeck, with Sir Robert Howard* of Clun, Salop, and Audley End, Essex.J. Aubrey, Brief Lives ed. A. Clark (1898), ii. 97; Burke, Extinct Peerages, 558; ‘Sir Robert Howard’, Oxford DNB; St Giles, Cripplegate and St Mary the Virgin, Oxford par. regs. educ. travelled (France, Italy), bef. 1642.CCC 1075; CJ vii. 602b. m. 23 Nov. 1648, Elizabeth (b. 7 Apr. 1629, bur. 22 Aug. 1709), da. and coh. of Sir John Danvers* of West Lavington, Wilts. 2s. 4 da. (1 d.v.p.)Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 97; Burke, Extinct Peerages, 558-9. suc. mo. 1645; grandmo. (Lady Elizabeth Hatton), 1646.PROB11/200/312. summ. to Lords as Visct. Purbeck, 15 June 1660.HMC 5th Rep. 154; HMC 7th Rep. 110. d. 1675.

Offices Held

col. of ft. (roy.) 15 June 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 47.

?envoy to Paris, May 1652.CCSP ii. 135.

freeman, Chipping Wycombe, Bucks. 13 Apr. 1668.The First Ledger Book of High Wycombe ed. R.W. Greaves (Bucks. Rec. Soc. xi), 185.

Parlimentarian

DANVERS, alias VILLIERS (formerly WRIGHT and HOWARD), Robert (1624-74), of Bassetsbury, High Wycombe, Bucks. and Knighton, Rad.

of Wycombe, Bucks. and Rad., Knighton.

VILLIERS

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DANVERS alias VILLIERS, Robert (1624-75), of Wycombe, Bucks. and Knighton, Rad.

Will

admon. (as Robert Danvers alias Villiers) 1676.Burke, Extinct Peerages, 559.

Estates

from 1645, interests in Stoke Poges, Bassetbury, Cippenham and other lands in Bucks.; land at Allerston, Yorks.; Pitsey and other manors in Essex;CCAM 669-70; CP (under Purbeck); CCC 1075; Lipscombe, Buckingham, iv. 549; VCH Bucks. iii. 174, 306-7, 310, 437n. from 1646, manor of Fakenham, Norf.;PROB11/200/312. from ?1653, Siluria, Knighton, Rad.;Burke, Extinct Peerages, 559; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 425. from 1655, moiety of manors Bradenstoke, Cleverton, Lea, Malmesbury, Westbury, Whitchurch, Wilts.;VCH Wilts. viii. 150; ix. 95; x. 139; xiv. 122, 139, 142. 1655-9, manor of West Lavington, Wilts.;VCH Wilts. vii. 200. 1655-1661, lands in Wilts. Northants. Som. and Mdx. forfeit by Sir John Danvers’ posth. attainder.Wilts. RO, 9/26/3.

Oxford 1644

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