Family and Education
b. c.1621, 1st s. of John Langham, and bro. of Sir William Langham. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1638; L. Inn 1640. m. (1) lic. 8 Dec. 1647, aged 26, Mary (d.1660), da. and coh. of Sir Edward Alston, FRCP, of Great St. Helens, London, 3s. d.v.p. 2da. (2) lic. 18 Nov. 1662 (with £10,000, Lady Elizabeth Hastings (d. 28 Mar. 1664), da. of Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon, s.p.; (3) lic. 13 Apr. 1667, Lady Penelope Holles (d.1684), da. of John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, s.p.; (4) Dorothy, da. of John Pomeroy of Devon, s.p. Kntd. 25 May 1660; suc. fa. as 2nd Bt. 13 May 1671.VCH Northants. Fams. 216-17; Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 16.
Offices Held
Commr. for assessment, Northants. 1657, Jan. 1660–1, 1663 – 80, 1689, j.p. 1657 – 82, 1689 – d.; commr. for militia 1659, Mar. 1660; member, Hon. Artillery Co. July 1660, sheriff, Northants. 1664–5.
Commr. for public accounts 1667 – 70.
FRS 1677.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mdx.; Cottesbrooke, Northants.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
LANGHAM, Sir James (c.1621-99)
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Oxford 1644
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