O’NEILL (ONEALE), Daniel (c.1612-64), of Belsize House, Hampstead, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1612, 1st s. of Con O’Neill of Castlereagh, co. Down by da. of Art Oge O’Neill. m. Sept. 1660, Katherine, da. of Thomas, 2nd Baron Wotton of Marley, suo jure Countess of Chesterfield, wid. of Sir Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope, and Jan Polyander van der Kerchhove (Kirkhoven), lord of Henvliet, Zealand, s.p. suc. fa. 1619.DNB; Procs. R. Irish Acad. xl. pt. 3, table C.

Offices Held

Capt. of horse 1639, maj. 1640, lt.-col. (royalist) 1642 – 46; gov. Trim 1649; maj.-gen. 1649; col. of horse July – Dec. 1660; capt. R. Horse Gds. (The Blues) 1661–d.CSP Dom. 1639–40, p. 422; 1640, p. 574; E. Peacock, Army Lists, 17; HMC 5th Rep. 194.

Groom of the bedchamber 1644 – 49, 1650 – d.; commr. for trade Nov. 1660 – d., plantations Dec. 1660 – d.; jt. farmer, French shipping duty 1661 – d.; postmaster-gen. 1663 – d.; member, Societies of Mines Royal and Mineral and Battery Works 1663 – d.; asst. R. Adventurers into Africa 1664–d.Clarendon, Rebellion, iii. 521; Cal. Treas. Bks. i. 372; CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 102; BL Loan 16; T70/75.

J.p. Kent, Mdx. and Surr. July 1660 – d.; jt. surveyor of petty customs, London Dec. 1660–3; commr. for assessment, Mdx. 1661 – 63, Westminster 1663 – 64, loyal and indigent officers, Mdx. and Westminster 1662, highways and sewers, London and Westminster 1662.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 420; Tudor and Stuart Proclamations ed. Steele, i. 405.

MP [I] 1661 – d.

Parlimentarian

O’NEILL (ONEALE), Daniel (c.1612-64), of Belsize House, Hampstead, Mdx.

Main residence: Belsize House, Hampstead, Mdx.

Author

E.C.

B.D.H.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

O’NEILL (ONEALE), Daniel (c.1612-64)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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