Family and Education
bap. 31 Aug. 1663, 1st s. of Sir William Bromley; KB of Baginton by Ursula, da. of Thomas Leigh†, 1st Baron Leigh, of Stoneleigh, Warws. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. matric. 1679, BA 1681, DCL 1702; M. Temple 1683; travelled abroad (France, Italy) 1688. m. (1) by 1685 Catherine (d. 1688), da. and coh. of Sir John Cloberry† of Westminster, and King’s Somborne, Hants, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) 21 Nov. 1689, Trevor [or Trever] (d. c.1691), da. of Samuel Fortrey of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx., s.p.; (3) by 1692, Cecilia (d. bef. 1698), da. of Sir William Swan, 1st Bt., of Southfleet, Kent, 1s. d.v.p. ; (4) lic. 12 Jan. 1698, Elizabeth, da. of Ralph Stawell†, 1st Baron Stawell, of Low Ham, Som. 2s. 3da (1 ). suc. fa. 1682. Procs. in Quarter Sessions (Warwick County Recs. viii), p. xxiii; (ix), p. xxxvii; Hearne Colls. i. 144; Vis. Warwicks. (Harl. Soc. lxii), 11–12; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 201; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 191; R. E. C. Waters, Genealogical Memoirs of Chester Families, 48–9; PCC 33 Bedford.
Offices Held

Commr. for rebuilding Warwick 1695. Great Fire of Warwick 1694 (Dugdale Soc. xxxvi), 121.

Commr. public accts. 1702–4; chmn. cttee. of privileges and elections 1702–5; Speaker of the House of Commons 1710–13.

PC 23 June 1711; Sec. of state 1713–14. Boyer, Pol. State, ii. 445.

Commr. building 50 new churches 1711–15, taking subscriptions to S. Sea Co. 1711; trustee, Radcliffe Lib. 1714–d. E. G. W. Bill, Q. Anne Churches, p. xxiii; Cal. Treas. Bks. xxv. 321; Pittis, Present Parl. 347; I. Guest, Dr John Radcliffe and his Trust, 482.

Freeman, Portsmouth 1711. R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 375.

Main residences: Baginton, Warws.; St. James’s, Westminster.
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BROMLEY, William II (1663-1732)

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