AUDLEY, alias TUCHET, Sir Mervyn (c.1588-1631), of Stalbridge, Dorset; later of Fonthill Gifford, Wilts.

Family and Education

b. c. 1588,C142/352/130. 1st s. of George Tuchet, 11th Lord Audley and 1st earl of Castlehaven [I], and his 1st w. Lucy, da. and h. of Sir James Marvyn† of Fonthill Gifford. CP, iii. 86. educ. M. Temple 1611. M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) by 1608 (with c. £2,250), Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Benedict Barnham†, Draper, of St. Clement’s Lane, London, 3s. 3da.; (2) 22 July 1624, Anne (bur. 11 Oct. 1647), da. and coh. of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th earl of Derby, wid. of Grey Brydges† (d. 10 Aug. 1621), 5th Bar. Chandos of Sudeley, s.p. CP, iii. 86, 127; Collins, Peerage, vi. 554; Drapers’ Co., London, min. bk. 1603-40, f. 54v; C.B. Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder, 12. Kntd. 30 Mar. 1608; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 144. suc. fa. as 12th Lord Audley and 2nd earl of Castlehaven 20 Feb. 1617. exec. 14 May 1631. CP, iii. 86-7.

Offices Held

Member, Irish Co. 1611. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 237.

J.p. Dorset by 1614 – 25, Som. and Wilts. by 1614–26; C66/1988; William Whiteway of Dorchester (Dorset Rec. Soc. xii), 78; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, pp. 14, 18. freeman, Portsmouth, Hants 1618; Portsmouth Recs. ed. R. East, 34–9. commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 1618–26. C181/2, f. 307; 181/3, f. 178.

Parlimentarian

AUDLEY, alias TUCHET, Sir Mervyn (c.1588-1631), of Stalbridge, Dorset; later of Fonthill Gifford, Wilts.

Main residences: Stalbridge, Dorset; Fonthill Gifford, Wilts.

TUCHET

Author

J.P.F.

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

AUDLEY, alias TUCHET, Sir Mervyn (c.1588-1631)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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