FOX, Somerset (1618-89), of Caynham, nr. Ludlow, Salop.

Family and Education

bap. 18 Jan. 1618, 1st s. of Somerset Fox of Caynham and Gwernygoe, Mont. by Anne, da of Sir Walter Long of South Wraxhall, Wilts. educ. Leyden 1633. unm. suc. fa. 1643.Salop Par. Reg. Hereford Dioc. xiii. 155, 419; Mont. Colls. xxvii. 92-94.

Offices Held

Cornet (royalist) ?1642 – 44; col. of ft. 1644–5.Information from Brig. Peter Young; Royalist Ordnance Pprs. (Oxf. Rec. Soc. xlix), 329; Symonds Diary (Cam. Soc. lxxiv), 271.

Commr. for assessment, Salop 1661 – 80, 1689 – d., Herefs. 1673 – 80; dep. lt. Salop 1662 – ?87; freeman, Ludlow 1669, alderman by 1671; commr. for recusants, Salop 1675.Ludlow ledger bk. 1648–80, f. 259; Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. (ser. 4), ii. 32–33.

Parlimentarian

FOX, Somerset (1618-89), of Caynham, nr. Ludlow, Salop.

Main residence: Caynham, nr. Ludlow, Salop.

Author

E.C.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

FOX, Somerset (1618-89)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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